Word: stiffest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Encountering two of its stiffest adversaries, Columbia and Pennsylvania, in the short space of two days, 9 members of the undefeated Varsity not team accompanied by Coach Harry Cowles and Manager Alden Bryan left town yesterday in an endeavor to stretch their winning streak to five straight. The Crimson racquet wielders will meet Pennsylvania at Philadelphia this afternoon and Columbia at New York tomorrow afternoon. The Harvard players who went on the trip are S. Ellsworth Davenport, III, '34, John F. Ray '34, Frank W. Jones, Jr. '35, Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, August C. Helmholz '36, Germain G. Glidden...
Harvard's baseball team, confident after its victory over Boston University, the outfit which triumphed over the Crimson last year, faces its stiffest early season encounter on the diamond of Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock, when the hard-hitting Providence Friars travel to Cambridge...
...minor squabblings of Heimwehr, Christian Socialists, and Dollfuss Front members would end once they had a common figure to rally round. There would be a new, possibly a more glamorous figure to draw impressionable youth from Adolf Hitler. The pomp and ceremony of a Habsburg court, always the stiffest in Europe, would be a drawing card for Austria's languishing tourist trade. It would bring Austria the not inconsiderable backing of the Vatican. On the other hand, the restoration of Otto in Austria is but a stepping stone to restoration of the entire polyglot Austro-Hungarian Empire. It would...
Since M. Bonnet and French Premier Edouard Daladier are the stiffest of gold standard twins, Wall Street understood Chairman Cox to mean that President Roosevelt had definitely decided not to resort to inflation, at least during the Conference. Promptly, on the theory that dollars, if sound, are not a bad investment, Wall Street sold stocks & commodities, caused their prices to decline. Alarmed, Secretary of the Treasury Woodin declared in Washington that the U. S. Delegation could not have agreed in London to even tentative dollar stabilization. This restored uncertainty-a bull point in WalI Street-and prices firmed...
...Prices. Anticipating a buying wave when the bank holiday passed, many prices moved up, giving the lie to the bearish signs of stoppages. Meat prices made the stiffest advance but yielded when housewives refused to increase purchases. Wheat prices were generally up in Winnipeg and other world markets. Cotton moved up a bit at Liverpool. These half-promises of better returns for farmers gave a hopeful indication that farm buying power might be bettered, mail order business and farm machinery business improved...