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Other problems are more substantial and are still unresolved. The Faculty decided not to try to stiffen the Harvard definition of "pass" for purposes of pass-fail, but individuals may still be able to impose a stricter definition on their own courses...
...racing, Bus Mosbacher's Intrepid was still the prohibitive favorite to defend the Cup against Australia's Dame Pattie next month. Outfitted with a second titanium-tipped mast (to replace the spar that broke twice in earlier races this summer), a new rudder, and new spreaders to stiffen the mast, Intrepid twice beat her own trial horse, Constellation, utterly crushed American Eagle-beating her by 9 min. 44 sec. over the 24.3-mile course-and showed her stern to California's Columbia...
More important, perhaps, Taylor challenges the view that the bombing may stiffen rather than soften Hanoi's will to continue fighting. Conceding that Germany and Japan did not cave in under massive aerial attacks during World War II, he points out that U.S. and Allied demands for unconditional surrender left them without "an escape hatch. They had no alternative but to stand and take it." In Viet Nam, by contrast, the U.S. is making no such demand, instead is assuring the Northerners that "a better life awaits them if they cease an aggressive war which offers them nothing...
...slavery. Before he can enter the jet, he must wrench himself from the womb of place. To be reborn, he must be unborn. He must blot out the streets and scents of Ballybeg. He must stop his ears against the voices of friends and their loutish camaraderie. He must stiffen in the embrace of the drunken schoolmaster, a surrogate father who has fed Gareth's blind yearnings as surely as his true father has starved his spirit. And he must face the vision of what he may become, in the person of a blowsy ginned-up Irish-American aunt...
...Committee on Educational Policy has decided not to try to stiffen the "Natural Sciences bypass," which permits a student to take two departmental science courses instead of a lowel-level Nat Sci General Education course...