Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale series since neither Ticknor or Page has shown any great success of late. Andruszkiewicz, who did not lose a game until last week, will do the pitching for Tufts tomorrow. The Medford nine has a crack team this season and will give the Crimson a good stiff test prior to the climatic series with the Elis...
...privilege accorded them under the 18th amendment: the use of authentic, alcoholic wine for their sacraments. On the Continent wines are cheap, their sale unrestricted, their use in churches unchallenged. But in Scotland, home of many a fine whiskey, there are no indigenous wines and' a stiff duty is added to the cost of those imported. The Church of Scotland at its General Assembly last week passed a resolution advocating the use of nonalcoholic wines in Holy Communion...
...friends, Stanford has traveled far. With an endowment of some $43,500.000 of which about $12.000,000 represents the physical plant, it is no longer quasi-public but predominantly a rich man's college. Its students (3,938 enrolled this year) have since 1921 been obliged to pay a stiff tuition fee: from $85 to $130 per quarter, depending upon the school in which they are enrolled. Though it is their custom to affect corduroy trousers, lumberjack shirts and other unassuming gear, more than half own automobiles. Some fly their own planes: Stanford's airport, operated by the Daniel Guggenheim...
Harvard Crew Headquarters, Red Top, Conn., June 3--With the close of the third day of a two-week session of intensive training, the four Harvard crews now in camp are gradually accustoming themselves to the stiff daily program which has been arranged for them. Weather conditions were perfect, and the oarsmen were given both morning and afternoon workouts, although they were forced by examinations to wait until the early evening for the final practice...
...Conn., June 2--The second full day of practice for the Harvard crews today was much more strenuous, with all four eights getting stiff workouts. The weather was clear and warmer and Coaches Whiteside and Haines wasted no time in getting their men down to the real work...