Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's Varsity hoopmen put up a fighting game last night featured by a stiff defense and Charley Lutz's sparkling play, but the Tigers were just too good-just about as good as the 38 to 27 score in their favor indicates...
Under the leadership of Captain Bill Hinton, a ski squad composed of Hinton, Dick Whittemore, Karl Porges, Joe Thomas, Al Eipper, and John Pierpont will, during the next two days, engage in stiff competition with the outstanding collegiate skiers of the East at the 29th annual Dartmouth winter carnival...
Production of antiaircraft guns and first-line fighting planes still lags below Britain's output in 1918. There has been no rush to fill the ranks of Britain's little army. Civilians who were scared stiff in September by the threat of Adolf Hitler's bombers were recently informed that there was neither time nor money to build deep, underground bomb shelters, that steel shanties to ward off splinters would have to suffice. Even the long trenches gouged in London parks and golf courses for air-raid "protection" have been allowed to crumble and flood...
...have a shaving brush "of stiff hair, grayish in color . . . four-and-a-half inches over all, the handles three-quarters of an inch in diameter . . . stamped [on top] 'Japan 33²' and on the side . . . 'Imperial - sterilized' " put on your gloves, wrap it up, and bring it at once to your local health department...
...last summer, may not be so brilliant as his late father, "Big Alva," who was Governor of Colorado for two terms, or so colorful as his Uncle Billy, who ranched in the San Luis Valley (whence came Jack Dempsey) and was Governor thrice. But his spine last week was stiff for economy...