Word: stiffen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Debated a minority report on the Salt Creek oil leases censuring the Department of the Interior, of Justice. ¶ Debated a bill to stiffen prohibition violation penalties. Missouri's Reed spoke passionately. Threatened to, but did not, name by name dry Senators who drink. ¶ Ratified the first treaty with China's Nationalist Government, a treaty recognizing Chinese tariff autonomy...
...Sweig and the translation of Ruth Langner. Even now, in the buzz of Mosca the Gadfly, the pandering servant who wins gold for Volpone to dirk him in the end with his own weapons of pen, ink and attested parchment, one can recognize that wise hardness that was to stiffen the ease of Elizabethan lyricism...
...asked one Headmaster after the Princeton meeting: "But what are the schools for if they don't stiffen the country's spine...
...Miss Leona Marie Esch of Cleveland said that the only way to beat the criminal was to "load the dice," i.e. stiffen the law. "He gambles with the law," said Miss Esch, "playing three to one he never will be caught, two to one he never will be convicted, and then playing a last chance [that] he will never be sent to a state penal institution...
...ALLINGHAMS-May Sinclair -Macmillan ($2.50). To Author Sinclair the most engrossing of all the phenomena of human behavior are those of growth. She writes about children as they get older, watches their instincts and emotions stiffen in the mold, closely observes tendencies hardening into characters. In another book, Arnold Waterlow, she riveted her attention to the slow shaping of a single personality. Now she brings six children into the world of her mind...