Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Freshmen are still an unknown quantity, it is expected that today's scrimmage will uncover some new talent. At the same time the Varsity squad will receive a stiff workout...
...York last week, 37-year-old Manager-First Baseman Bill Terry of the Giants, whose left knee is now so stiff that playing baseball is acutely painful, announced that he would retire after the Series, direct the team from the bench next year. Non-playing Manager Joe McCarthy of the Yankees was photographed with his happy beer-brewing employer who pays him $35,000 a year and will get some of it back in sales of his brew at the World Series games. Owner Stoneham, who inherited the Giants from his father last January and has followed them on road...
...column for the wild, somewhat hilarious joy with which he sails into an argument. Sometimes it is a little cruel, because he is such a tremendous puncher, and like Dempsey, once that bell rings, he knows nothing but punch, punch, punch until something drops. He loves to tackle those stiff, straight-up-and-down stylish debaters who use the fancy words...
Business candidates will be put through a stiff course in business training during their eight weeks of competition. This training will include the solicitation of advertisements, merchandising work, bill collecting, and office management...
...weeks, U. S. copper men have been arguing whether they should boost their price from 9.75? to 10? per lb. Fortnight ago, the idea got a stiff setback when potent Kennecott announced it had plenty to sell at the present price, promptly increased its output 25% rather than take a chance on having a runaway market at a higher price. Last week, U. S. copper men were still wary enough to make no price advance even in the face of the foreign rise, although in the past such an action would have been almost automatic...