Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is no question about Cornell. The Big Red are a first-rate, big, powerful team and the number-one threat to Dartmouth's claim to the Ivy title. Like Harvard, Cornell stands at 3-0 for the season; unlike Harvard, Cornell has faced stiff competition and prevailed on each occasion...
Blind Loyalty. Despite such protests, Wilson managed to win party endorsement of his stiff decree. "I suppose it's all right," said one bewildered Scottish Laborite, as he cast his district's ballots for Wilson. "After all, they are our government, and we've got to keep them in or we'll have the Tories...
...after-breath. Purists are learning to drink it the way the Poles and Russians have for cen turies: straight and cold. Among artists in the Long Island Hamptons, this summer's favorite was 100-proof Polish Bison Brand Vodka, which comes flavored with a thin piece of stiff grass (the herb Zubrowka) in every bottle...
...with its dwindling food supply to pose a twofold problem: how to increase the crop yield on existing farmland, and how to make use of acreage previously considered uncultivable. In the Philip pines, Rockefeller Foundation scientists have successfully tackled the first part of the problem by developing a short, stiff rice plant that may increase the average yield of each crop as much as 800%. Planted in test plots alongside the standard brand, the new rice rises in lush plants that make its old-fashioned cousin look like a victim of drought. Because it can also produce three crops...
...Honors candidates in Bio 40 generally receive A's while those who take the alternative program for honors -- graduate courses -- might face stiff competition for grades. There should be an "equalization" of grading, perhaps by instituting the pass-fail system...