Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the wealth of material, the competition for seats is as stiff as it is in the heavyweights. But Cabot seems to have solved last year's greatest problem--finding a first boat combination obviously superior to any other. Though by no means the final word, the present first boat is as follows: Hutchinson, bow; senior Norman Weiss, two; McClennen, three; Straus, four; Captain Russell, five; MacMahon, six; McKenzie, seven; Masland, stroke; and Hamilton...
...enough, but it was big the wrong (horizontal) way; theatergoers could still manage to see over it to the stage. Turbans seemed a possibility and remain wildly popular ("Be your own Lawrence of Arabia," said the ads; "you're as sheik as Araby"). But unless supported by stiff netting, which tends to bring on fairly severe migraine, they last on high only a few moments before slumping to head level. Caps and berets were plainly much too small...
...intellectual Catholicism in the U.S." One editor denounced C.U.'s "authoritarianism"; another labeled the university a "citadel of mediocrity." Snapped Bishop John K. Mussio of Steubenville, Ohio: "Legitimate controversy should not be sidestepped by a center of learning. Suppressing views is no service to truth." In a stiff letter to Rector...
Crimson sailors expect stiff competition from Brown and Yale when they seek to capture the McMillan Cup, at the U.S. Naval Academy this weekend. The event will be sailed by 44-foot yawls in three fifteen-mile races...
Smith education is interesting, both for its stated goals and for its application in practice. The laudable goal of four years at Smith is the production of "responsive and contributing members of the community." In practical terms, this means a series of concentration and distribution requirements as stiff as those of Harvard, with an emphasis on independent study...