Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unless Prague immediately went beyond the concessions already made. At this the Prime Minister promptly balked. With the River Rhine running between the Petersberg, hotel of the Britons, and the Dreesen, a favorite hostel at which the German Dictator was stopping for the 68th time, Neville Chamberlain began exchanging stiff, formal diplomatic notes with the Führer-the kind of thing that gets published after war begins in a British Blue Book, a German White Book. Each note was carried ceremoniously in diplomatic cars, and each time the Rhine was traversed on a perky little ferry smelling of fresh...
Some 3,000,000 people in the U. S. who hobble around with stiff, aching joints are waiting for an arthritis cure. Doctors have tried warm baths, short-wave treatment, artificial fever therapy and vaccination, but have achieved few cures. Arthritis has over 65 variations and doctors cannot agree on any one cause. Certain it is that there is an arthritis type: a tired, nervous, constipated individual easily susceptible to colds and infections who may develop a full-fledged arthritis after a streptococcus infection, or a series of slight injuries to some organ...
...States, independent retailers' cries of oppression by chain-store competition have been quieted by chain-store taxes.* Particularly stiff are Florida's; only Idaho has comparably severe rates. Florida's Cotton Mather, less fanatical but no less shrewd than his ancestor, worked out a system which he thought had the tax witch lashed to the stake: he organized his 15 stores under seven loosely knit corporations, no one of which held more than three stores. Under Florida's system of graduation, paying taxes on several small chains is small potatoes to paying on one large chain...
...Secretary of State Hull's stiff note in July, demanding payment by Mexico for $10,132,388 worth of farms and ranches expropriated from U. S. owners, or at least arbitration of the claims (TIME, Aug. 1), the Mexican people paid little attention. The Government of bold President Lazaro Cardenas, feeling sure that Mr. Hull did not mean business, said in its reply: 1) that the matter was not subject to international arbitration since Mexico's own laws require eventual payment; 2) that to arbitrate U. S. claims would be unfair to Mexican claimants, who have not been...
...this tacit invitation to Sudeten Germans to provoke an incident, the British Foreign Office issued an exceptionally stiff press communiqué saying that His Majesty's Government "welcome the conciliatory attitude displayed by the Czechoslovak Government," have hoped for a "constructive response" from the Sudeten Germans, and that "the issue by the Sudeten German Party of a proclamation relaxing the admirable discipline hitherto observed by the Sudeten Germans is therefore much deplored...