Word: stiffeners
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...privates themselves. Company K seethed with reports that as many as 18 sergeants and corporals had determined to take a stand on this thing. Colonel Becker found only four rebellious sergeants (two of them brothers), tartly reduced them to the ranks. He also indicated that Captain Jewett should stiffen up, stand for no more back talk from his company brothers. Army old-timers smiled up their tunic sleeves at this exhibition from the 174th. Like other recently mobilized National Guard outfits, the 174th still had its military ABCs to learn. A derisively extenuating rumor went about: Company...
...once a missionary district becomes independent, it is exposed to enemies from without and within. In Japan that independence came gradually after World War I, was paralleled by a growing hostility to Christianity in Japanese officialdom. Since churchmen and mission boards outside Japan made no conspicuous effort to stiffen Japanese Christians' backbone, concessions to nationalism became inevitable...
...Bulgaria's Foreign Minister. From Popoff to his King, from King to Popoff, Ambassador Cadere went, now with a warning, now with a concession, begging the retention of the important city of Silistra, asking reparations for public works. At a moment when Rumania seemed to stiffen, Hungary ominously growled from another quarter that she would accept no less than 75% of Transylvania. Rumania backed down...
...stiffen venture capital's spine against this hazard, the White House announced a new policy. Treasury, Defense Advisory Commission and Federal Loan Agency all agreed that capital outlays for Defense may be written off the owner's books, in the tax returns, at 20% a year (far higher than normal depreciation rates in most manufacturing industries). By reducing their taxable profits on war goods, this depreciation rate will keep many manufacturers out of the higher brackets of an excess-profits...
...Largo (by Maxwell Anderson; produced by The Playwrights' Company) brought Paul Muni back to Broadway after seven years in Hollywood. It also proved to be Maxwell Anderson's most serious play since Winterset. When Anderson gets really serious, the dilemmas of mankind stiffen their doughty horns, philosophy flaps its aerial wings, Webster's Unabridged donates its longest words, prose ascends to verse, and there is a general intimation that the Almighty is in the throes of mapping out the universe...