Word: stiffeners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effort to stiffen its academic program, Yale has recently adopted a new plan for its arts and sciences curriculum. The program is an outgrowth of a report made in 1953 by President A. Whitney Griswold, stressing the importance of greater student interest in academic work...
...adopted, the recommendations would generally stiffen the Dartmouth curriculum both by offering more highly concentrated courses and by raising grade standards. The report, released yesterday to the press and college officials, must win approval of faculty, administration and the Board of Trustees before it can be put in force...
...score was tied 7-7 at half time. In the second half the Buckeye fans started singing the Ohio State song, which is Momma Loves Poppa. This haunting old college song sure did stir up those Ohio State players. Right away you could see them stiffen their backs and begin to bow their necks. I guess those State players got to .thinking that they didn't want to be hearing all winter how the Little Women had missed a trip to Los Angeles just because they weren't men enough to beat us Wolverines...
...effect, however, was to stiffen Adenauer's iron determination. Back in the caucus room after the first ballot, he shook his fist at the C.D.U. Deputies and shouted: "Some people in this room, some people in my own party voted against Gerstenmaier. If I find out who they were, they'll take the consequences...
...first week of the conference had begun in confusion and concern, with the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles striving manfully to stiffen the backbone of the divided West. He made it clear that he. like Presi dent Eisenhower, viewed Indo-China as "the cork in the bottle," to be held in place at all costs. Any such compromise settlement as partition of Indo-China, he argued, could only result in ultimate Communist capture of the whole country. Meanwhile, the Chinese Reds showed signs that the prospect of Western military action in Southeast Asia had them worried...