Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Havana five days prior. Senator Walsh had married Senora Mina Perez Chaumont de Truffin, a wealthy Cuban widow (TIME, March 6). For all his 73 years and a stiff back the grim, grey Montanan was feeling fine & fit for a short honeymoon. From Havana he flew with his plump bride, 20 years his junior, to Miami where he received official notification of his appointment to the Roosevelt Cabinet. He called at the hospital where Chicago's Mayor Cermak lay close to death. Going on to Daytona Beach Senator Walsh, an honest Dry, told newshawks that under him the Department...
Harvard men will naturally first inquire whether Yale's action will result in the Blue's team becoming definitely superior to the Crimson one. This point is open to question, but such a stiff schedule of games will naturally result in more thorough, even if unofficial, late summer training, and probably an improvement in calibre. Enthusiastic Harvard alumni will as a result probably demand that Harvard follow Yale's action with like steps. As a matter of fact, a glance at the Crimson schedule will show that it is heading in that direction, with six hard and two easy games...
...heavy black leather & mahogany chair taken out of the White House and crated for shipment to his home as a souvenir.* Into the spacious, many-windowed Cabinet room were trundled ten brand new chairs for Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fill with his ten chief advisers. On the high stiff back of each chair was a metal plate naming the Cabinet job but not the jobholder...
Three months later Ludington began to slip. It was getting stiff competition from the mail-subsidized Eastern Air Transport, which had begun a passenger service over the same route. A reorganization shook out Vice Presidents Vidal and Paul Collins, who had built the line with the Ludingtons' backing; shook in as president James M. Eaton, formerly of Pan American...
Members of the swimming team undoubtedly keep stricter training than men engaged in some of the other sports, and they certainly receive as stiff work-outs, if those factors are of any importance. Still another argument in favor of the recognition advocated is the fact that an increase in the number of major sports would tend to diminish some of the unnecessary glory which at presents hovers about them...