Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Rengo, Japanese news agency, Premier Viscount Makoto Saito broke the iron-clad seniority rule of Japan's Foreign Office when he was handed by War Minister Lieut.-General Sadao Araki this stiff memorandum: "In appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time, with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country. In the light of these considerations, we find Hiroshi Saito, present Minister to Holland, the right person for the post...
...most outright opponents, he had retained at his own expense Frederic Lee as his personal counsel. First result of the two factions working at cross purposes was virtual sabotage of the AAA program. The Braintrusters held up codes for packers and food distributors because they wanted stiff provisions to socialize those industries. Mr. Peek held back on crop restriction plans because he wanted more efforts made to export surpluses...
...main, the Russian can choose his own doctor within his own district. Doctors can usually choose the districts in which they want to practice. A doctor may practice as a specialist, after passing stiff examinations, and thereby get a slightly higher income from the government. He may practice privately (only 10% do) after his four or six-hour daily stint for the state. Education of doctors and nurses is below U. S. par, but improving. Pure research is encouraged...
Enlisting the aid of Dr. W. M. Conant '79, who thereby became the Varsity's first physician, Stuart whipped his men into topnotch condition by stiff training unknown to previous teams...
Laboratory work is the sine qua non of good chemistry. Laboratory work is necessary; it must be required of students; and it must be long and hard if it is to be worth while. If you do not like a stiff field of concentration like chemistry, I suggest you roll you hoop in Fogg Art Museum rather than in Mallinckrodt. L. A. DeBlois...