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Word: stiffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tommy Bilodean will probably start on the mound for the Harvard nine, although Proctor Avon is listed for the position. It is doubtful whether Dick Walsh will play any of the game after his stiff workout against the Danvers squad. Jayvees To Play Teachers' HARVARD BRIDGEWATER Gallagher, cf. c., Meler O'Brien, 1b. ss., Glenn McGoodwin, lf. 1b., Klernan Connolly, 3b. 2b., Bowles Lockwood, ss. 3b., Feeling Lee, rf. p., Whitcomb Carr, 2b. cf., Aherne Thom, c. rf., Barrows Wood or Victor, p. lf., Kelleher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1937 NINE MEETS HOLY CROSS SACKMEN TODAY | 5/12/1934 | See Source »

Regarding the Dartmouth meet this Saturday as a stiff contest, the track team is undergoing a thorough testing this week under the direction of Coach Eddie Farrell. Although the engagement with the Green last spring resulted in an easy triumph for the Crimson, they are reported to have the best material now that they have had in recent years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Runners Work Hard Preparing To Meet Indians | 5/10/1934 | See Source »

...treadle of a knife-grinder's machine. Strength was the first requisite of a player, who struck at the great slabs with his fist, had the title of "organ-beater." Early in the 15th Century pedals were introduced because the bass keys were so stiff that it was easier to stand on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: St. Patrick's Triumph | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...seen wooden sailing ships crunched like peanuts in the jaws of the ice floes. He has sent his men hopping out over the ice and later, when a blizzard blew up, known that some of them would not come back. He has seen survivors carried in blue and stiff as corpses. And each year for 66 years he has seen swilers trudge happily back, dragging their sculps in a long crimson trail across the glare-white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWFOUNDLAND: Sculps & Swilers | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

Bronze gongs throbbed softly and with stiff rustling of robes the Shinto priests bowed low to the ground, for in the confines of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Tsugu-no-Miya Akihito, Crown Prince of Japan, last week was worshipping his illustrious ancestors. Utterly oblivious to the solemnity of the occasion was Tsugu-no-Miya Akihito, for His Celestial Highness last week was just three months old, a little round buttonhead of a baby, swaddled and lying on a brocaded pillow in the arms of his nurse. In solemn procession, Prince, pillow and nurse went first to the Koreiden shrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Obeisance | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

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