Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personnel of the M. I. T. one-mile relay team, which races the University short distance combination in tonight's meet, will be the same as that which competed in the Millrose A. C. games last Wednesday. Here, again, the Crimson will run up against some very stiff opposition. Last February, the M. I. T. quartet raced through its opponents with a final lead of some 40 yards, and this year's team is reputed to be nearly as fast, whereas there is not a single veteran among the Crimson representatives led by Vinton Chapin '23 this evening...
...Hinkle '23 forced his way into the finals of the College squash tournament yesterday when he defeated J. J. Glessner '25 in a five game match marked by long, stiff rallies. The loser's opposition was far greater than expected. The first two games went to Hinkle. Runing through the initial session 15-10, he started to let up as Glessner came through to a 14-11 lead, but Hinkle's power then asserted itself and he hit the ball hard for a 17-15 win. His streak lasted until he had obtained a commanding lead in the third game...
Coach Chase has been drilling the team in a "five man defence", and the attack used is one of continued short passing with only short shots at the basket. The week's practice was completed yesterday afternoon with a stiff scrimmage, in which the first string five was defeated by a combination five including. Coach Chase and University Coach Wachter...
Tonight at 8 o'clock in the Hemenway Gymnasium the University five faces Middlebury, in the first game after the Christmas recess. In spite of an exceptionally stiff schedule Middlebury has shown good basketball this season and has been beaten only by small scores. Last year the Crimson men won from the Vermonters...
...cohorts of Law and Order, in their stiff-collared sobriety, received a severe shaking-up when they heard that a newly-elected Senator had been caught smoking in the Senate chamber. What sacrilege! to besmirch the sanctity of the room where Thomas Barton lived his dying years, where the Civil, Spanish, and Great Wars were conducted, where Webster, Clay, Sumner, and other great men of the past gathered in solemn conclave; where, indeed as Dickens once described, one could see "so many honorable members with swelled faces.... caused by the quantity of tobacco they contrive to stow within the hollow...