Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time, talked arms limitation (TIME. July 20). In Paris he had participated in the preliminaries to the London economic conference which he attended as a delegate (TiME. Aug. 3). He had been to Berlin, met President von Hindenburg and Chancellor Briining, departed advising them to "keep a stiff upper lip." At Rogart in Scotland he had rented a farmhouse on the Duke of Sutherland's estate, rested for a month. Prime Minister MacDonald motored the 120 mi. from Lossiemouth to pay him a two-day visit. Later Mr. Stimson had to deny formally that they had discussed...
...youth and the fact that he had merely obeyed his father, Col. Lea offered to assume an other two years if his son's conviction might be set aside. Judge Barnhill offered to do so if Col. Lea would agree not to appeal, but the condition was too stiff. The case was closed. The Leas posted bonds and went off to Nashville, free pending their appeals...
...Cuba Libre" insurrection of 1895 which led to the blowing up of the Maine and U. S. intervention. Last week, as in 1895, the insurrectos were split up into dozens of little bands, raiding, ambushing, running away to raid again somewhere else. Last week as in 1895 a stiff press censorship was clamped down on war news. Foreign correspondents were not allowed to leave Havana and spent their time like the late Richard Harding Davis collecting news from cafe tables on O'Reilly...
Last week the new, bland, stiff-collared president of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Very Rev. Jeremiah Joseph Callahan.* declared "the problem can easily be solved by plane geometry." He said he had done it in less than two months after the June semester closed. His mathematical reputation (his book Euclid or Einstein? on parallelism is to be published next month) gives prestige to his statement. The Callahan trisection depends "on the geometry of a plane figure that is not treated in Euclid, or in those modern works that are based on Euclid. When certain theorems concerning this figure are demonstrated...
Last week, after 124 years of stiff competition, came word that the old firms of Pleyel and Erard had merged. Their instruments will henceforth be produced at the Pleyel works (St-Denis). Erard and Pleyel pianos are not the finest made in France (the Gaveau is considered finer). nevertheless they are first-class instruments. Pleyel owns the great modernistic Salle Pleyel in the Faubourg St-Honore...