Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning the Harvard crews paddled down to the two-mile mark in several stretches. The water was rough, kicked up by a stiff breeze. Prior to the time rows in the afternoon both crews paddled down to the bridge, with conditions more favorable...
...again brought into prominence yesterday when the Crimson racquetmen defeated Williams by a 6 to 3 score. With Williams taking the first two matches, three of the last four Harvard men in the lineup won their matches in straight sets while J. L. Ware '30 put up a stiff fight only to lose his encounter...
High in the sky Apollo opened his oxygen supply full. The temperature was nearing a minimum of 76° below zero. The controls were growing stiff from cold. It became impossible to see anything even through the holes in the goggles. In spite of the temperature the flier ungoggled his eyes, the better to watch his instruments. He was dizzy but he pushed the plane slowly through a last thousand feet. At 39,140 ft. he finally pushed it too far. The nose whipped over; the plane plunged 2,000 ft. in a spin. Then the new holder of the altitude...
...actually killed, but the local Polish consul was summoned post-haste to Warsaw, and Polish Foreign Minister August Zaleski announced that he was drafting a stiff protest to the League...
...great and good friend. King Albert of the Belgians, President Hoover sent birthday greetings last week. To the State Department's stiff formula for such felicitations, the president added: "My own personal greetings." King Albert is 54, President Hoover...