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Seeking their second straight win of the season, the Freshman hockey team will face stiffer competition than they met in downing Rindge Tech Monday when they take the Arena ice at 2 o'clock this afternoon against a strong Belmont Hill sextet...
...University of Virginia and Boston University will be the newcomers on the slate. B.U., taking the place of both Connecticut and Tufts as the opener, may prove to be stiffer early competition for the Cantabs, since the Terriers defeated Tufts this year by almost as large a margin as the Harlowmen...
...said, "there are thieves all right. But the penalty for being seen entering the American Embassy is stiffer than the penalty for larceny...
...price (to about three cents). For some of the postwar hopefuls, born of adversity, this meant the biggest crisis of all: they had survived the worst days of short newsprint when expenses were low and they did not need large (or too competent) staffs. Now the competition would be stiffer. Gossip was that at least six of the dailies would be lucky to survive the coming year...
...reason, said a top Prices Board official, has been the Lack of powerful pressure groups attacking price ceilings-like those battering OPA in the U.S. But -there were other more important reasons. Wartime taxes had been much stiffer in Canada than in the U.S.; Canada had done a much better job freezing wages and keeping them frozen. Thus it had held down the amount of cash that might otherwise have fueled a postwar inflationary spending spree. Moreover, Canadians are by tradition a more law-abiding people than U.S. citizens, have refused to deal extensively in black markets...