Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sporting Club of France, Georges Carpentier, "Gorgeous Orchid Man," competed with William Harrison Dempsey. High was the goal, the battle stiff. First Dempsey, then Carpentier led; but at last the U. S. pugilist weakened, his thick struts could no longer hoist his knotted bulk; Carpentier took a great leap to the fore, carried off the victory. The event was high jumping. Dempsey missed at 5 ft. 1 in.; Carpentier cleared...
...this she is most satisfactory, as is the centre of interest -save for one melodramatic reference to his dead Anne Rutledge. Among the "appealing" details is the token Lincoln had from Rose's small brother and which he concealed in his pocket during the speech — a stiff little fish. With rare sense, the author leaves the lost speech lost...
...history of the sport at the University this year. After a clean up against several strong teams from below Mason and Dixon's line during the Spring trip, the team defeated Williams, Columbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton in short order. It ran up against unexpectedly stiff opposition from Yale on May 23 and the match ended at a 4 to 4 dead-lock when a downpour of rain interrupted the final doubles match with the score tied at one set apiece between Whitbeck and Ingraham, and Watson and Jones of the Blue...
Harvard will have another stiff proposition when it travels to New Haven in two weeks to face these Blue athletes. The Crimson team, it was announced last night, will be hampered by the loss of its star hurdler, Fletcher, who is forced to give up track on account of ill health. Coach Farrell calls him "the best hurdler we have ever had", but goes on to say that he has never been able to do his best on account of his physical condition. In the indoor meets this winter, Fletcher showed what he might do under favorable circumstances, but this...
Mapes, playing against Captain Cummings of Yale, put up a stiff battle before he succumbed to the intercollegiate champion on the sixteenth green, 3 up and 2 to go. Captain Hodder gave Wattles an even harder fight and carried the match to the seventeenth hole. In the foursomes Mapes and Hodder played the best golf of the afternoon, although they fell before Wattles and Ordway on the nineteenth hole. Barnum and Bohlen conquered Tuttle and Haviland of Yale in a very closely contested match which they ended on the seventeenth...