Word: stiffen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southern Century. As the years stiffen his knee joints, notes Dobie, Webb's "intellectual movements" become ever more "flexible and limber." Two years ago in a Harper's Magazine piece titled "The American West: Perpetual Mirage," Webb pointed out the "one overwhelming fact which 17 states have been trying to hide for the last century": "The heart of the West is a desert" both geographically and culturally...
...some schools which have no language program at all whereas others give their pupils only an antiquated start in French or Spanish and see them come to grief in the College Board Exams. Until the secondary schools improve their language teaching to a far higher extent or until colleges stiffen their admissions policy, it will be the latter's function to teach a good percentage of their students a foreign language...
...schools." Then, in his final report to Columbia University President Grayson Kirk, released last week, Teacher Chamberlain, 52, detailed two courses that the college might follow in the next decade: 1) to aim for continuity, preserve in the college the same standards and values it has now; 2) to stiffen entrance requirements drastically, and insist that incoming freshmen possess much of the knowledge that now must be fed to them in time-devouring basic courses...
...this way we will help stiffen the spirit of the people of Clinton and people like them all over the South. We will also help stiffen...
...union countercharged that a group of fly-by-night dressmakers were chiseling on union contracts. They farmed work out to nonunion shops in violation of their contract, paid subcontract wages, welshed on union benefit payments, kept several sets of books. To fight back. Dubinsky demanded that union and management stiffen their policing of contract abuses, slap automatic fines on chiselers. Management said that the present loose policing methods are good enough. Furthermore, the union was not always an aggressive policeman. When the I.L.G.W.U. nabbed a chiseler, it sometimes let him off easy for fear that he would fold...