Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blythe based his arguments for "Buy American" squarely on the fact that countries with depreciated currencies, low wages or both are able to manufacture goods, ship to the U. S., pay a stiff tariff and still undersell the products of U. S. industry. Czechoslovakia, he cited, can lay down rubber boots in the U. S. at $1.16 a pair. They cannot be duplicated by the U. S. for less than $1.48. Japan sells celluloid combat $11.06 a gross against the best U. S. price of $25.86. Certain grades of European steel are so cheap that even if all labor cost...
Toronto, possessing a team made up of veterans boasting weight and speed, will furnish stiff opposition for the Crimson skaters and will test the Harvard defense, which has shown alternating moments of strength and weakness to the utmost...
...agitation which was intended to impress the turnkeys of Widener's reading room seems to have died a natural death, helped along, no doubt, by the wet feet and stiff necks of November 23. But although he is satisfied with the necessity of the Library economy, the average undergraduate has a vague feeling that the reading period will require considerable readjustment and that no provision whatsoever has been made for that purpose...
...rivals appear on the Crimson schedule this year when the Varsity meets Pittsburg on January 14 and Columbia at New York on February 11. The Pitt team has earned a reputation in the Middle West as one of the faster outfits and the Harvard coaches expect stiff competition from the newcomers. Columbia is also reputed to have a speedy aggregation...
...clad house in Cleveland Park she had risen to queen it over Washington society. The nation's snickers at her battle for precedence over Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the late Speaker's wife, had left her unabashed. She it was who kept her brother Charlie's backbone stiff in demanding every honor due the Vice President. She had come to fancy herself as a political spellbinder and G.O.P. headquarters found her services really useful among women's clubs during the campaign. When she heard the election results, she bubbled...