Word: stiffer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Local magistrates at Winnipeg recently warned weapon-toters to expect stiffer sentences. Last week one Herbert Weston and one Andrew Wood, both convicted of "toting," were sentenced to "two years imprisonment and to receive six lashes from a heavy whip...
...Studies at Harvard are far stiffer, and grades much lower, than at Washington. If one drew down a straight B at Washington, and, upon coming to Harvard were to work as hard here, he would be most lucky to get a straight...
...University team, composed of R. B. Burnett ocC., No. 1, J. P. Cotton '29, No. 2, and F. A. Clark '29, back, has defeated to date the 110th Cavalry, the 101st Field Artillery, and the Cavalry Freebooters. The West Pointers should provide stiffer opposition...
...Nichols Club team in considered one of the stronger of the amateur club sixes that skirmish about the edges of the intercollegiate ice hockey kingdom. The Harvard skaters should meet stiffer opposition that they found on the Arena ice Thursday night, when they overwhelmed St. Francis Xavier College of Nova Scotia...
...dark house, rambling across the top of a windy hill in Cleveland Park, Washington, D. C., was once the home of Grover Cleveland. Here he repaired in hot weather. The rooms, swept by a fresh continual draft, were filled with the rustle of stiff conversation and stiffer silks; the approaches were guarded, then as now, by large iron dogs. Now Red Top is filled with the rhythmic music of carpenters' hammers; Red Top is being torn down to make room for a modern house, one not infested with reminders of stuffy and strenuous gaiety, hushed talk Coxey...