Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continuation of the Plan on an extra-curricular basis also has its drawbacks. It may reach only a handful of students each year. And it will inevitably face stiff competition from other activities. On the other hand here is a chance for a new technique in teaching, freed from marking, credits, and formal sanctions. The increasing participation in the Program during this year augurs well for the future...
Fritz Reiner, world-famous conductor of the Pittsburgh symphony, stated a short time ago that he was offering the post of solo trumpet to Manny Klein, now playing with Frank Trumbauer's orchestra, because he felt Klein's vibrato "much preferable to the stiff and dead tone used, as a rule by symphony...
...John's latest budget was orthodox if heavy. Only $1,900,000,000 of the amount will be borrowed, the rest will be raised by bigger taxes. Britons will have to pay no new taxes, just more of the same stiff taxes they have had since the World...
...getting the largest possible slice of business to be had, Weir last week denied that National is about to build another plant. Said he: "We won't invest in the Chicago area till the country gets back on its feet." Thus temporarily sparing Big Steel the headache of stiff competition in another market, E. T. Weir went off to Bermuda...
...effort to produce pains-taking and careful interpretation of the play, cast and director neglected to give it the life it needed. The stiff, high collars of Empire dress were reflected in a stiff performance. Perhaps this was due to first-night jitters, perhaps to the artificiality of a costume play, but whatever the cause, the result was a little too dignified, too well-polished...