Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Ben Hallowell out for a few days because of an injured hand, and with the members of the squad who are breaking fall training restricted to a few turns about the rink, Joe Stubbs put the remaining players through what may be regarded as a mere stiff conditioning scrimmage, as far as any indications of future team lineup are concerned...
...four days he and his 2,000 men-stiff-fezzed Askaris and undrilled Danakil tribesmen, backed by a battery of moun- tain artillery mounted on camels-had made the most spectacular forced march of the entire Ethiopian campaign. To protect the flank of Italy's main army of the north with its spearhead at Makale, they had gone where no white men had ever gone before, skirting the blazing Danakil Desert, then up over the bitter cold highlands facing the Derdega Mountains. One thing General Mariotti knew: Degiac Kassa Sebat was ahead of him with an indefinite number...
...have turned in fine records, and this year, according to all signs, should be no exception. It has been against some of the strongest teams in the country that Crimson aggregations have won over eighty per cent of their games. Though Mr. Cowles' men are up against a stiff season this year, he predicts victory in a majority of the contests...
This unusually long season grows increasingly difficult from the Brown meet on, and stiff competition can be expected from the Alumni and the Providence Boys' Club in the preliminary meets. Such former Crimson luminaires as Roy Wallace '35, George Scott '34, and Robert Fallon '33, in the freestyle events; Edward Stowell '34 in the backstroke; and Victor Leventritt '34 in the breastwork should provide an exacting test for the varsity; and in Matthew Chrostowski and John Higgins, National record holders in the sprints and breastwork respectively, the Boys' Club can vaunt itself of two prominent candidates for next year...
Mulattoes' Hearts. Mulattoes, even if their heart arteries are stiff as clay pipes, do not complain of angina pectoris, owing simply to their "inability to correctly interpret and describe the pain sensation rather than to lack of mental stress and strain as suggested frequently in the past." Such was the finding of Drs. Emmet Field Horine, 50, & Morris M. Weiss, 34, of Louisville...