Word: tightenings
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...tighten his belt...
...errors, the game resembled a sandlot final rather than a world championship; only the presence of the President of the U. S. through the whole nine innings and the crowded stands built on the roofs of houses beyond the right field wall contributed color. Only once did the game tighten into drama?the Cardinal's half of the seventh?but the Athletics stopped that rally. Score: Philadelphia 5, St. Louis...
President & Mrs. Hoover and Herbert Hoover Jr. weekended at the Rapidan camp, for the first time this year taking along no guests, no work. ¶ To reduce the influx of alien labor and thereby relieve U. S. unemployment, the President ordered the State Department to tighten up its enforcement of the "public charge" provision of the Immigration Law. Under this provision U. S. consuls will be instructed to exercise their discretionary power to refuse passport visas to all non-preference quota immigration applicants unless each can convincingly refute the presumption that upon arrival in the U. S. he will join...
...Going to the line the runners kept their sweaters on as long as they could. As they crouched in their lanes, digging their spikes into the cinders to make the little pits that sprinters need to leap from if they do not use blocks, the raw air seemed to tighten up the muscles beneath Tolan's ebony skin. The pistol cracked. In a fraction of a second the first hunched, speed-gathering strides were over. Somehow Simpson had drawn a yard and a half in front. He was running in his famed "classic" style, his head back, his knees...
...change has been made in accordance with the policy of the graduate schools to tighten up in their requirements. The majority of students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, however, in contrast to those in the Department of History, will take their examinations with College students when the regular reading tests are given...