Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maryland's company took up deck golf, shuffleboard, trapshooting. Except for the President-elect's customary tall stiff collar, every one changed entirely to tropical clothes. Will Irwin, writing for the New York World, reported: "The atmosphere is courteous and pleasant, without formality, and everything is 'as easy as an old shoe.' " The Maryland's radio operators were busied, sending tens of thousands of idyllic press reports and receiving Associated Press flashes for publication in The Evening Hurricane, ship's daily...
From time to time tentative attempts toward reconciliation with the Establishment were made. Abuses by the secular authority having virtually ceased, and the leaders of the United Free Church having grown somewhat less stiff and proud, negotiations were resumed in earnest...
...returning veterans are Captain Tudor A. S. Bigelow '29 H. W. Bigelow '29, F. R. G. Giddens '30, G. C. Holbrook '30, and C. B. Lakin '30. Several stellar performers on last year's Freshman team should furnish stiff competition for berths on this year's University team. The most promising candidates from the Class of 1931 are J. B. Garrison '31, and S. L. Batchelder '31. There are also a host of other men who have been ineligible or not quite first string callbre in former years...
...dollars and cents," by fostering exploitation of the illimitable Labrador forests, whence comes most of the wood pulp for Canadian and U. S. news organs, magazines, books. Ostensibly Sir Richard is perfectly willing that the Labrador forests should be transferred to the Dominion of Canada-for a sufficiently stiff price. But the exceedingly harmonious relations existing between him and the International Paper Co. with headquarters in Manhattan suggest that Sir Richard thinks a stiffer price can be got from Wall Street. The blatant nonsense about merging Newfoundland with the U. S. is probably a mere advance guard of publicity...
...stiff wind rendered passing difficult, and the score does not correctly indicate the superiority displayed by the Crimson team. Defensively Harvard's strength was impregnable; time and again the M. I. T. booters carried the ball past the University forwards, only to have the edge of their attack turned by the sterling play of the defense men. Although the Crimson forward line showed a marked improvement in aggressiveness, its inability to coordinate in front of the Technology goal was partially responsible for the low score...