Word: stiffener
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Senators were left with the distinct impression that any campaign to stiffen Prohibition enforcement by the Department of Justice must be preceded by wholesale prison construction...
Added Author Thurtle: "Out of 287 men executed while serving with the colors during the War, 264 or 92% were shot for desertion. The death penalty did not stiffen the backs of the soldiers, for in addition to those who were shot 17,000 men deserted...
...center of the Eli line was doing a beautiful job all afternoon just where the Harvard line had failed most conspicuously. It will be a sad story for the Crimson on the afternoon of November 23 if the line doesn't stiffen up, for getting Booth in an open field is some different from stopping him on the line of scrimmage...
...Suddenly in a great crowd of people a child or a young girl would be found murdered and mutilated with a knife. No one ever saw "Jack." The C. I. D. and Policeman Wensley gradually caught his accomplices but "Jack the Ripper" never was found. Timid English women still stiffen and pale when strange men address them in Whitechapel...
While Engineer-President Hoover was designing the machinery of his forthcoming law enforcement investigation the U. S. last week was adjusting itself to the new Jones Act. This law has been professionally nicknamed the Five & Ten by virtue of its five-year penitentiary sentence and $10,000 fine to stiffen Prohibition punishments...