Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...which Wolf David Lamar has figured. Sometimes he has associated with prominent men. There was the time when he attempted to get an injunction against E. E. Harriman's voting a large block of Union Pacific stock, solely because Harriman, then needing votes, might have bought for a stiff price the Union Pacific stock held by famed Speculator Keene, Lamar's friend. Later he charged Union Pacific with false book keeping, caused Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath to exclaim: "He is the most unconscionable of liars...
...dishearteningly. A few miles further on, at Gräfenbacher-hütte, he stopped again, descended with his middle-aged son and adjutant, Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg, at a little cottage. Here during the War, to be near the campaigning Feldmarschall, lived the late Frau von Hindenburg. Solemn in stiff bowler hats the two von Hindenburgs gazed on a wife's, on a mother's Wartime home...
...pyrotechnic brilliance. After the performance busy police turned thousands from the main road home, directed them to a narrow swaying pontoon bridge between Deutsches Eck and the mainland. Came a harplike twanging of strained metal, the bridge lurched, settled in the water. Children screamed, whimpered. Before morning 40 bluish stiff bodies were fished from the yellow waters. Six-year-old Raymond Lawler of Akron. Ohio, went to see the fireworks with his grandfather, Peter Conrad. Hand in hand they walked onto the fateful bridge. Still hand in hand their bodies were fished from the river...
...pneumonia which his starved body could not resist. His death made much newspaper copy. Reporters interviewed hoboes passing through their communities. Hobo "kings" bragged that they would carry on his work, that hoboes were hopping on freight trains for his funeral in Washington, that he was a good "stiff" (man). Washington police prepared for an influx of hoboes at the funeral last week in All Souls' Unitarian Church (whence William Howard Taft was buried). After the services the body was to be cremated and sent on to the family home at St. Louis. Only one tramp...
...metallurgists is to develop a beryllium alloy which is not brittle. While most aluminum-beryllium alloys will stand tensile (pulling) stresses of around 70,000 Ib. per square inch, they will support only slight bending stresses. Thin sheets of a 70-30 beryllium-alu-minum alloy will break like stiff cardboard...