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Word: stiffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opening its home season today against Tufts, the Varsity Lacrosse team will face stiff competition. Tufts has an almost completely veteran outfit and one that looks, on paper at least, much improved over last year. It defeated M. I. T. last Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACROSSE TEAM FACES TUFTS OUTFIT TODAY | 4/11/1936 | See Source »

...Fighting stiff competition all the way with green material, the Varsity Lacrosse team met three straight defeats in its brief vacation schedule. Tuesday saw a landslide of 19 points for the Mount Washington Club to the Varsity's 4; and Thursday brought a 15-2 defeat at the hands of the University of Maryland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACROSSE TEAM LOSES | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...years. The Hoans's living room overflows with overstuffed furniture, a radio, a phonograph, a piano. On the piano stand photographs of Mrs. Hoan, her mother, the Hoans's son Daniel Webster Jr., their daughter Agnes at 2 and at 18. A picture of the Hoans, looking stiff and uncomfortable after their wedding in 1909, hangs in the stairway hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WISCONSIN: Marxist Mayor | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Suffering from an ominous dearth of veteran attack men, the Varsity Lacrosse team takes the road next week for a stiff vacation schedule. Fans can't look forward to much spectacular play from the inexperienced first line of Sophomores, according to Neil Stanley, coach of the varsity squad. But with a defence of old timers, the team may be able to hold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team Takes Road With Green Forward Line | 3/26/1936 | See Source »

...definitely encouraging to read that other universities understand and sympathize with Harvard and her faculty, who find their realm of discussion now limited. Yale would promote stiff opposition to the imposition of such an oath on her intellectual freedom. And so would we here at Pennsylvania. But we feel that we have little to fear. We can make no comparison between the intelligence of a New England legislature and our own, but we would hesitate to believe that Pennsylvania's assembly would act in such a stupid fashion. Daily Pennsylvanian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POISONOUS NONSENSE | 3/19/1936 | See Source »

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