Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Turning their prows upstream yesterday, the University crews found the straight stretches unusually calm and were able to spend a stiff practice session on racing starts and short competitive pulls in preparation for the M. I. T. races this Saturday...
After a series of stiff practice sessions since their trial race last week, the two University crews will compete again at 4 o'clock this afternoon in a mile and three quarters test over the Charles River Basin course. The Ineligible combination, which showed surprising strength in the previous handicap grind, is scheduled to start with them as a competitor in the event...
...baseball season always begins on a cold grey day. Celebrities with stiff fingers and blue noses wish they hadn't promised to throw in the first ball. President Coolidge in a brown fedora, Mayor Walker in spats, Mayor Mackay of Philadelphia in his winter overcoat, tossed in the new white balls and in New York, Brooklyn, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, the games began. Mostly the crowds yelled to keep warm, but in Manhattan they had another reason. Before them occurred a dramatic happening...
...Last week, in Montreal, Alice Provost, 22, Marie Blanche Armande Nichol, 17 and Thérèse Morier, 17, claimed to have been cured suddenly on Jan. 28 of well-defined infirmities (discrepancy in the length of legs, paralyzed leg, stiff arm); when and because one Father Jacques Dugas subjected them to a laying-on of a reliquary which contained the bones of some recently beatified Jesuit martyrs. Physicians examined the girls, sent a certificate of their cure to Rome by a Jesuit Father and said: "You may thank God for such extraordinary benedictions...
...University 150-pound crews, with their seating arrangements definitely decided by Coach C. S. Heard '25 since the vacation practice period on the Houstonic river, have started stiff training this week for the opening race with...