Word: stiffening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...center of the Eli line was doing a beautiful job all afternoon just where the Harvard line had failed most conspicuously. It will be a sad story for the Crimson on the afternoon of November 23 if the line doesn't stiffen up, for getting Booth in an open field is some different from stopping him on the line of scrimmage...
...Suddenly in a great crowd of people a child or a young girl would be found murdered and mutilated with a knife. No one ever saw "Jack." The C. I. D. and Policeman Wensley gradually caught his accomplices but "Jack the Ripper" never was found. Timid English women still stiffen and pale when strange men address them in Whitechapel...
While Engineer-President Hoover was designing the machinery of his forthcoming law enforcement investigation the U. S. last week was adjusting itself to the new Jones Act. This law has been professionally nicknamed the Five & Ten by virtue of its five-year penitentiary sentence and $10,000 fine to stiffen Prohibition punishments...
...Debated a minority report on the Salt Creek oil leases censuring the Department of the Interior, of Justice. ¶ Debated a bill to stiffen prohibition violation penalties. Missouri's Reed spoke passionately. Threatened to, but did not, name by name dry Senators who drink. ¶ Ratified the first treaty with China's Nationalist Government, a treaty recognizing Chinese tariff autonomy...
...Sweig and the translation of Ruth Langner. Even now, in the buzz of Mosca the Gadfly, the pandering servant who wins gold for Volpone to dirk him in the end with his own weapons of pen, ink and attested parchment, one can recognize that wise hardness that was to stiffen the ease of Elizabethan lyricism...