Word: stiffest
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Connecticut should provide the stiffest challenge to Radcliffe. Connecticut thinks it can go all the way this year: it beat Yale earlier in the season by seven seats, while Radcliffe edged the Elis only by a narrow two-seat margin...
...while the Big Green should not prove to be a factor, the Engineers could give the Crimson its stiffest test of the year...
...Standing Committee, on which Rosovsky also served. It was at this point--a time when the wave of student radicalism and black militancy began to crest at Harvard-- that the liberal recommendations of the Rosovsky report and the Standing Committee's implementation of them began to face their stiffest challenge from the left...
Penn on Saturday appears to be the toughest squad in the East this spring. "Penn has got to be the best team in the league this year," Harvard coach Loyal Park said Wednesday. "They'll be our stiffest competition...
...Exxon's adaptability is being put to its stiffest test by the swiftest and most drastic changes in the business and political climate that oilmen have ever experienced. The world's voracious energy demands have combined with Arab embargoes and production cutbacks to create a shortage the end of which no one can foresee. Politically, governments in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America are asserting ownership rights to more and more of the petroleum pumped out by the "seven sisters" of world oil: Exxon, Royal Dutch/Shell, Texaco, Mobil, Gulf, Standard of California and British Petroleum. By the 1980s...