Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Natural Sciences particularly, the upper-level offerings at present are extraordinarily weak. Perhaps the Gen Ed committee will decide ultimately that the way to attract unusually qualified professors to the Gen Ed program is to offer them unusually qualified students--to institute upper-level Gen Ed courses with stiff prerequisites...
After 16 years, the Baltimore Guild has grown stubborn itself. It is putting up a stiff fight against management and it feels it is on firm ground. The wealthy Sun papers-the Sun, Evening Sun, and Sunday Sun-carry almost as much advertising linage as the New York Times. By spending lavishly on news coverage, they make just about everybody's list of top papers in the U.S. But they spend precious little on their own employees. They pay a top minimum of $150 a week for experienced reporters; 61 U.S. papers pay higher salaries, including the Kenosha News...
Lyndon Johnson's shift to politics was prompted in part by the advice of College President Evans, who saw Johnson's possibilities as limitless if he were properly pushed by stiff competition. "A teacher is a law unto himself in the classroom," he told Johnson. "His views aren't challenged very much-you don't have to develop to your full potential." That advice proved just as beneficial to U.S. education as it was to L.B.J. For Johnson still insists: "The basis of our whole future as a nation and a civilized society depends...
...heavyweight crow Saturday's race at Navy was a new experience--the night did not break a record. A stiff headwind on the Severn slowed the race considerably Harvard finished 8:52.5, well off the 8:24.2 record for the one and three quarter mile distance set in 1941 by another Crimson crew...
...wild tirade of threats that he would personally fire everyone in the capital, from street sweepers to policemen, if the city did not shape up. Typically, no one was fired and Pnompenh remains as threadbare as ever. As government corruption accelerates, justice declines: a young government clerk received a stiff sentence for stealing 25?, while rumors indicate that one of Sihanouk's pals took a $125,000 bribe for a government contract and got away without punishment. All of this has set sentiment smoldering among Cambodia's tiny class of professional people and intellectuals...