Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authorities believe that study will thoroughly fit a man for all the problems of life. Some of us know the great benefits arising from so-called 'outside activities'-a hard, close game calling on brain as well as body for all there is and then some; a stiff pull on the river and a lost race, and also that sympathy for the man supposed to be responsible, which will help carry on in after life as nothing else...
Local track authorities predict a close score, with Yale a slight favorites. Yale's strength lies in the pole vault with Carr and Sturdy competing. in the low hurdles with Kieselhorst, and in the sprints with Kieselhorst and Walker running. Hall should give Pratt stiff competition in the shot...
Football is a game of unending upsets and contradictions, baseball games may turn on the uncertain news of a pitcher or on an irregularity in the ground, but in track the dopesters and the mathematician may stiff command attention. Track performances vary, but they usually vary within limits. And it is these limits that give purpose and excuse to the pre-meet mathematicians who about this time of year begin to flood the sporting pages with their carefully weighed prognostications...
...Freshmen have been successful in every match so far this season but look for stiff opposition from the Andover racquetmen this afternoon. The latter lost to the powerful Yale 1931 team by a large score earlier in the season...
...President's daughter threw out first ball. Butch Burnham runs bases for Captain Stevens who has not yet recovered from weekend and refuses to throw in farther than second from center field. Burnham elected pitcher by rising vote. Team will draw lots for batting order tonight. Team finished practice stiff but happy. Soft ball will be in good shape for Saturday Insignia box car couchant on field of buckwheat in hoe signo vincet...