Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...M.I.T. in the Indoor Athletic Building at 8 o'clock tonight. Although Harvard is considerably handicapped by the loss of H. V. Atherton '82 and J. L. Ward '84, both of whom have undergone operations for appendicitis since the last meet, Tech is not counted upon to furnish any stiff opposition. Coach Ulen said yesterday...
Widow Mary Louise Curtis Bok, who has paid a stiff price for the Philadelphia company's enterprise, had nothing to say. But Musical Director Leopold Stokowski declared authoritatively that both. the Philadelphia Grand Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra would come to Radio City for guest performances while continuing to give their regular seasons at home. Exchange visits would be arranged with "whatever company is installed in Radio City," he said, perhaps with the Chicago Civic Opera too. To allay one practical difficulty of such a scheme, stage dimensions will be the same in Radio City's opera house...
...stiff debating schedule has just been announced by G. F. Oest '33, secretary of the Harvard Debating Council, and the team will start preparing for the coming contests as soon as the mid-year period is over...
...Neill, assistant professor in ophthalmic mechanics at Pennsylvania State College of Optometry, pretended that he had ptosis, to demonstrate to a meeting of the American Academy of Optometry a new lid prop he had devised. To the nosepiece of his spectacles he had soldered two pieces of fine, stiff gold wire, bent to fit the upper curves of the eye sockets, forming non-irritating, comfortable hangers on which Dr. Neill's lids hung like little coats...
...conspiracy. College officials did not discover the alarming situation until several freshmen innocently told them of it. Then Dean C. Mildred Thompson called a meeting of the class, uttered a mild reprimand: the class, said she, should have made individual or united protest against what they thought a stiff assignment. A second questionnaire was handed out. All freshmen who admitted using another student's work in the whole or greater part of the survey would be obliged to take an extra examination...