Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their way, they would close up all hospital nursing schools and concentrate the teaching of their profession in such institutions as Yale's School of Nursing. But they realize that this is impossible. Hence the present campaign of the National League of Nursing Education is directed toward a stiff reduction in the number of hospital schools and a further increase in those connected with universities. Such a change, it is argued, would cut down the annual output of 25,000 new nurses to perhaps a few thousand a year. The graduate nurses, under this proposed system, would be better...
...Socialist family of Ebert alone (TIME, March 27). That was the only time that Dr. Meissner faced a dilemma in which his past, present and future chief might be said to be simultaneously involved. Last week, buttoned tightly into his impeccable cutaway, he moved about the diplomatic reception with stiff-necked majesty. He alone had ridden every storm of the last eleven years and he is still riding high. Awkward in the formal clothes he had to wear for the diplomats, Hitler sweated and was visibly ill at ease. Deftly Dr. Meissner shunted his new Chief out on a balcony...
...Duce and the 100 generals. For the first time the boys were given real rifles. One hundred yards from the reviewing stand each unit clicked into Mussolini's latest invention, the new Fascist half-goosestep which is executed with the left arm and left leg swinging out stiff...
...seven race series, U. S. Yachtsmen had no reason to alter their opinion. In two days of sailing, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Rainbow had been better handled, shown herself the faster boat in light airs. But Endeavour had proved that she is a fine boat in a stiff breeze and that her skipper's reputation for quick thinking has not been exaggerated. More than that, she had won the first race...
...predicted that the effect of the stiff competition among these groups will tend to force prices down in an era of generally rising prices. Observers believe, however, that this will not have the effect of giving Harvard men the benefit of continued very low prices, because the profit to the student organization is practically entirely in the nature of a sales commission, and the lower the basic prices go, the smaller becomes the margin available for commission allowance by the commercial house actually producing the service. The ultimate effect would be to make the field unprofitable for student organizations, with...