Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President tested public opinion last week to see whether the country desires strong arm tactics against the anti-foreign land and oil laws of Mexico. The test consisted in a "leak" from the State Department to the effect that a very stiff note had been sent to the Calles government. When the note had been perused at Mexico City and had been declared no stiffer than usual by Foreign Secretary Saenz, the President had already received the benefit pf all that the newspapers could say on the subject of possible intervention.
...Little, Brown ($4). These chronicles well bear periodic repub-lication.-Their author was as alert in his late seventies as he had been in his youth when, graduated by Harvard at 19 (class of 1821), he entered the front ranks of military, political and private society in "our somewhat stiff and exclusive city," Boston. He became a mayor of that city, like his father before him and his grandson later, but writing in his age, he found more meat in his youthful journals than in the official acts of his public career. Sunday, Sept. 16, 1821, for instance: "Dr. Porter...
While the University eleven was riding rough-shod over Tufts, the Freshman team was forced to face a stiff fight to down the Holy Cross Freshmen, 14 to 0. Outweighed by their opponents, the Purple gridmen played a determined game of football, and kept down a score which, on the merits of team ability alone, might have been larger...
Eight former "H" men were included in the line-up of the informal team, which supplied such stiff opposition that the close score was really a credit to the University team...
...Northeastern University soccer team engaged the University seconds in an encounter on Soldier's Field yesterday afternoon and defeated them, 3 to 0. The seconds, although putting up a stiff, fight, were out-classed, and the visitors clearly earned their victory...