Word: stiffener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quagmires stiffen under the ever-strengthening sun, tennis players will pop out in the College like crocuses...
...fellows, carrying canes-and walked beside the car down Capitol Hill. It was a brisk, 46-minute walk and everyone made it except George Hardy, who got a stitch in his side, and "Deadman" Riley, who just got tired. The others all felt fine, although afterwards they began to stiffen up a bit, sitting around in the chill breeze...
There is a less frenetic opposition to federal controls: some educators fear that administrative standards will be the opening wedge in a campaign of standardization all along the line that will gradually stiffen U. S. education into one unshakable pattern. They pass around the story of the French Minister of Education who proudly declared that at any given moment he could tell what page of what text-book each child in the country was reading. American education needs to be supported by national funds, these educators admit, but diversity and the chance to experiment are too important to lose...
Raised Voices. There was no doubt that competition for the readers' small change and advertisers' dollars was getting stiffen One symptom was a rash of big ads in Manhattan dailies, not so much to sell millions of newspaper readers as to impress a thousand or so admen now making up 1949 budgets...
...Congressmen were impressed, however. They could see the necessity of getting some kind of aircraft program started immediately. Some of them still saw a big Air Force as a substitute for the generally unpalatable universal military training bill, and wondered whether it wasn't possible to stiffen U.S. defenses with machinery instead of men, particularly in an election year...