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Word: stiffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facilities at their home pool. First new dive is the "flying somersault forward, running," which is simply a conventional swan dive with a quick flip on the end of it. The "somersault backward" is just what it says it is except that the diver's body is kept perfectly stiff throughout the dive...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: NEW TWISTS ADDED TO REQUIRED HIGH DIVES | 12/3/1938 | See Source »

...encounter is only the first of five games scheduled for the basketball team before Christmas vacation, because Northeastern, Brown, Boston University and, Wesleyan appear in succession at the Indoor Athletic Building to get the Crimson tuned up for another stiff season of league competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FESLERMEN TRAINING FOR OPENER WITH M.I.T. | 11/30/1938 | See Source »

churchmen, merchants, welfare societies and reform groups, have not done much to batter down this figure. On the contrary, the forces of reform received a stiff jolt last week-at the hands of Mrs. Robert Dwyer, wife of a Washington police-court clerk, and her friend Helen O'Brien, a bookkeeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double Trouble | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Coach Skip Stahley is now running this Freshman basketball squad of 25 men through a stiff practice six times a week. Although he would make no promises about the prospects for the season, Coach Stahley, pleased with the fact that there are several large men on the squad, would admit that material this year was better than last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Quintet Has Good Material for Tech Contest | 11/25/1938 | See Source »

Fesler, with the aid of Coach Johnny Wood, faces a stiff rebuilding task, because Captain Lupe Lupion and Charley Lutz are the only two returning regulars. In regard to lettermen, he in somewhat more fortunate, for Chet Legg, Bill Humes, and Fred Heckel are ready to fill the other available positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Hoopmen Start Work As Only Two Regulars Return | 11/23/1938 | See Source »

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