Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...queerest choices Franklin Roosevelt ever made was to pick William Edward Dodd, a history professor brimming with academic ideals, stiff-necked with homey truths and tactlessness, as U. S. Ambassador to Germany. That Martha Dodd is her father's daughter any reader of Through Embassy Eyes will quickly see. Her account of the increasingly uneasy four and a half years the Dodds spent in Berlin is like a series of blurted indiscretions. But no one could live so long in such a focal spot in complete diplomatic immunity: some of what Martha Dodd has to tell is worth listening...
...part of the program are Eric Cutler, Frank Powers, and Ed Hewitt, who will enter the New England A. A. A. U. 500-yard free-style championship race. Bob White and Jim Curwen, who had hoped to swim, may have to scratch because of colds. The mermen will find stiff competition from Bill Carson of the Providence Boys' Club, who defeated Cutler in the New England Championship 220-yard free-style race last month...
...bacillus which dwells in earth, manure, intestines of many animals, rusty nails and tools. The germs usually enter a dirty wound (sometimes only a pinprick) and incubate for more than a week, producing a poison hundreds of times more virulent than strychnine. A victim of tetanus first complains of stiff neck, then tight jaws, in a mild case muscular spasms in the region of his wound. Sometimes his mouth becomes drawn in a sardonic grin, and finally he writhes in painful, uncontrollable muscular paroxysms, sometimes rocking on his head and heels. Spasms may be so severe that his stout abdominal...
...Last week a similar scene took place in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, where Sergei Koussevitzky's famed Boston Symphony had announced a "concert extraordinaire." Manhattan concertgoers could see that something was up when 18th-Century ushers led them to their seats. When Boston's stiff-necked orchestra appeared in silk stockings and periwigs with Conductor Koussevitzky himself got up as Franz Joseph ("Papa") Haydn, they began to catch on. Without batting an eye, poker-faced Koussevitzky led his men through Haydn's rococo whimsey, bowed gravely, pinched out his candle and left the stage...
Harvard pressed hard in the final minutes of the first canto but the only result was a stiff workout for Holt. The second period opened with Yale fighting hard in Crimson territory and goalie Vint Freedley holding them off in brilliant style. Then as the Hoddermen's offensive started to get underway Harry Holt saved things for the Blue with two beautiful stops, one when Freddle DeRham and Dave Eaton set up a perfect play in front of his net and again when Win Jameson had a clear shot...