Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the game tonight, the Crimson malletmen will take the midnight train and reach Cincinnati tomorrow morning. Their opponents tomorrow evening, the Cincinnati Riding and Driving Club, are not rated as high as the Cavalry aggregation, but will nevertheless give the Crimson team stiff competition...
...Crimson will have a decided edge in all the longer runs. David Cobb '31, unheralded double victor of last year in the 1000-yard and one-mile runs, will be back. This year he is entered in the mile and two mile runs. In the latter, he will face stiff competition from Levering, of Dartmouth, who beat J. L. Reid '29 to the tape last year in the time of 9 minutes, 41 2-5 seconds. Cobb and N. P. Hallowell '32 should take the first two places in the mile run hands down...
...yard event Andrews, of Dartmouth, who took a second place last year will encounter stiff opposition from J. W. Fobes '32. The former will hardly do better than repeat his performance of last year, when he finished second, but in the 600 victory seems to lie between him and F. E. Cummings '30. Last winter Andrews placed second to Captain Swope in the 600-yard event, and reports from Hanover have it that his form is considerably improved this year. Captain Treman, of Cornell, judging from his last year's performance, should follow him to the wire...
...news stands in Springfield, Mass., and Hartford, Conn., last week, there appeared for sale an article which set many a passer-by to wondering. It was a phonograph record, not black but brown; no thicker, scarcely any heavier, than a stiff piece of paper; and it bore the name of an unknown corporation called Durium Products...
Slinking week by week through London banquet halls, "Cyclops" has winked a camera shutter at Winston Churchill fiddling with the silver at the Canada Club dinner, at Funnyman Leon Errol, caught looking uncomfortable in stiff evening clothes, dining with the American Society. That great shipowner and financier, Lord Inchcape, was snapped five times during one course, once sucking his forefinger...