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Word: stiffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rebel troops were reported to be short of ammunition, but in the Vera Cruz district they were putting up a stiff fight, while in the North there was much "activity" and in the West an "important victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Mexican War | 2/11/1924 | See Source »

Harvard has faced this year an unusually stiff schedule, with a preponderance of engagements with Canadian or League teams. Harvard has lost, but in so doing has come up against combinations of higher power than itself. Harvard's pace has steadily quickened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENDURANCE MAY BE WINSOR TRUMP CARD WITH YALE TONIGHT | 2/9/1924 | See Source »

...strength which give the University a shade in the predictions. They are R. G. Allen '26, LeB. R. Barker '26, W. L. Chapin '25, B. R. Cutcheon '25, and J. N. Watters '26, Against these runners the Yale four, Bannon, Chapman, Geilfuss, and Douglass, is certain to offer stiff opposition. Bannon has yet to prove himself, but his showing this year has been remarkable. The other three are veterans: Captain Douglass won the Oxford-Cambridge two-mile race in 1921, but bowed to Watters last year; Chapman has been victorious in the quarter-mile races of Oxford-Cambridge meets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON FAVORED IN RELAYS; STARS FLOCK TO ARENA | 2/2/1924 | See Source »

Years ago Steiglitz saw the possibilities of photography as an artistic medium and set out to make a photograph a personal thing that should be adapted to different types-not a stiff, hard picture, but a soft, delicate thing, properly composed and balanced-with beauty of line and grace of movement, as in a fine painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Progress Medal | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

Early Season SGames Stiff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEXTET VINDICATED IN TIGER'S DEFEAT | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

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