Word: stiffest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Floyd Stahl's powerful Crimson nine waded through the stiffest week on its schedule just about as expected with three victories against one defeat. And they took care to get one of those triumphs over Penn, the only League tilt of the four...
...less than 22 States have already imposed chain taxes-and in a far-reaching decision, Louisiana's was upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court. Last week, chain store men found solace in Pennsylvania, whose graduated tax ranging up to $500 per store has been one of the stiffest yet imposed. Because Pennsylvania's Constitution requires that all taxes must be uniform, Dauphin County Court declared it invalid...
...hardheaded psychiatrists or softhearted laymen realized that: 1) mercy killings now occur in the U. S. at the rate of one a week; 2) mercy killers are almost never convicted; 3) stiffest penalty imposed in recent years was three months in prison.* If a grand jury refuses to indict Louis Greenfield, it will add one more brick to the foundation of unwritten law condoning mercy killings. It will also strengthen the case of euthanasia advocates, headed by Manhattan's famed Neurologist Foster Kennedy. Euthanasiasts decry mercy killings by overwrought relatives, plump for a tightly written law which will...
Undefeated in its dual meets this year, the Crimson Cross Country team will face runners from 20 other colleges in the Intercollegiate Cross country race this afternoon. The event will start at 3 o'clock and be run in New York's Van Cortlandt Park, stiffest course in the East...
...John Palfrey in a quarter final round grueller, while unseeded Dickinson ousted Chester Legg '40 in an earlier round. Another surprise came when Arthur Brooks '39 defeated Jack Stewart '40 to gain the distinction of being the only senior in the quarter finals. Walter Muther '40 gave Burt his stiffest battle before succumbing in three sets...