Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Tuesday the Springfield outfit was defeated by the strong Syracuse team, 4 1-2--3 1-2. Since Syracuse is regarded as one of the leaders in intercollegiate circles, Coach Laman expects stiff competition...
British female flyers kept searching parties busy last week. Misses Joan Page and Audrey Sale-Barker, making a leisurely flight from Cape Town to England, lost themselves in low clouds over Nairobi. A stiff wind blew them off-course, crashed their plane into a boulder-studded ridge. For two days planes from Nairobi scoured the wild Kenya country, finally spotted the wreck. Meanwhile Miss Sale-Barker, searching for water, had encountered a Masai headsman, sent him to Nairobi with a note written with lipstick. Rescuers took out Miss Sale-Barker by automobile, Miss Page, whose leg was broken, by plane...
Painter Robinson was born in Westbrook, Me., home town of Hubert Prior "Rudy" Vallée, whom she has never met. Student at the Boston Museum at the age of 17, she was one of few girls to complete the late Instructor Philip Leslie Hale's notoriously stiff anatomy course. In New York, generally working with Dr. Roland Grausman, she has specialized in sketches of diseased bronchial tracts. But Miss Robinson has her softer side...
Score--Harvard 5, Princeton 4. Goals--First Period: Saltonstall (Putnam), 2.50; Glazebrook, 8.33; Glazebrook (Whitman), 9.34; Baldwin, 19.38. Second Period: Glazebrook (Whitman), 6.56; Baldwin (Putnam), 9.48; Lane (Kammer), 10.19; Putnam, 17.25. Third Period: Wolcott, 3.13. Penalties--Wolcott (hooking); Kammer (holding); Putnam (high stick); Saltonstall (stiff check). Referees--Smith and Foley. Time--Three 20-minute periods...
...races proper were entertaining but not remarkable. Fastest time was 205 m.p.h., scored in a free-for-all by spindly, one-eyed "Jimmy" Wedell whose Wedell-Williams speedsters hold transcontinental records in both directions. In stiff competition 205 m.p.h. would hardly place in a qualifying heat...