Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This evening at 7 o'clock at the Skating Club, the team meets Cambridge Latin. If then faces a stiff schedule, including Andover and Exeter, both of whom were at Lake Placid during the Christmas holidays. Dewey, realizing that most of the teams he plays are well ahead in experience, intends to concentrate on a hard-checking, defensive type of hockey...
...when he was ousted by Smetona. In 1934 he was sentenced to twelve years' hard labor for an unsuccessful coup d'état, was later allowed to go to France where he has been living as an exile. Known as a Germanophile and Fascist, hardheaded, stiff-necked Augustine Valdemaras is also bitterly anti-Polish. Back in the late twenties he campaigned so vigorously for the return of Vilna* to Lithuania that Poland's late gruff old Marshal Pilsudski finally asked him point-blank in a League council meeting: "Is it peace or war?" Also of interest...
Another worry to the Quakers is that center Swede Gustafson has not yet rounded into shape after the stiff football campaign. Coach Jourdet's five misses him, because it has no other sixfoot starters...
...will be a better team than last years," declared Skip Stahley yesterday, as his Yardling hoopmen went through a stiff workout in preparation for today's game against the M. I. T. first year...
...over the sandy hills behind the city. Brush fires, unlike real forest fires, are easily extinguished and rarely do much more than annoy the mountain rabbits and keep CCC boys out of trouble. Sometimes, however, they burn down to the edges of roads or cultivated land. Last week, a stiff breeze combined with ideal burning conditions in the hills caused the brush fires to get completely out of hand and it was actually true that the old wooden Arrowhead Springs Hotel, owned by Producer Joseph Schenck, burned to the ground, after the Ritz Brothers had moved out in a hurry...