Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taking his ease in Japanese Dairen; Feng is skulking in Honan with only 50,000 troops. Thus the 300,000 farmer soldiers of Yen and Feng constitute a stiff "disbandment problem." Last week this problem was being tackled in Shansi by able Dr. H. H. Kung, Disbandment Commissioner Extraordinary, unique in prestige as he is the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius...
Died. William Stevenson Baer, 58, orthopedic surgeon, clinical professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Wartime chief orthopedic consultant of the A. E. F.; after a paralytic stroke; in Baltimore, Md. His chief discovery: a method of injecting sterilized oil into a stiff joint to prevent the reformation of adhesions. A later observation: that bone infections could be cured by the use of bluebottle fly maggots...
...President their difficulties in maintaining his wage scale while commodity prices were falling. Outside the White House they repeated their laments in the hearings of newshawks. Last week in so reliable a Republican print as the New York Herald Tribune President Hoover was depicted as waging a stiff backstage "struggle" to uphold his pay policy "in the face of a strong movement in financial circles" to cut wages. His visitors came away with the impression that the President thought that if wages could be maintained for another 60 days, a business turn for the better would then come...
...could never accustom myself," replied St. Gandhi according to a despatch from Karachi, "to uncomfortable trousers, a stiff shirt, white collar, or to tight shoes...
...face of increasingly stiff competition from such alert young firms as Aarons & Freedley (Girl Crazy), Schwab & Mandel (America's Sweetheart), Green & Gensler (Fine & Dandy), oldtime Producer Hammerstein's shows seemed to grow poorly and more poorly. His first play of this season, Luana, during the rehearsals for which he got hurt in a fight (TIME, Aug. 11), was a failure. His second show, Ballyhoo, was taken over after a two-week run by Funnyman W. C. Fields and the cast. Philosophical about his losses, 54-year-old Producer Hammerstein said last week: "When Mayor Walker comes back...