Word: hard-hitting
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...four hours of participation in rigorous sports such as football and lacrosse, but calisthenics will be added to the schedules of other athletics. Credit will be given for regular forms of exercise, such as R.O.T.C. drills and inter-House athletics, but extra-curricular activities, which are expected to be hard-hit by the program, will be no excuse...
Over he went like a hard-hit tenpin. He scrambled up again, clubbed Mrs. O'Brien with his gun. That was the last she remembered. When she came to, her assailants had gone. She grabbed the telephone, screamed: "Help-police-holdup...
Bart Harvey followed with a hard-hit bounding ball to right, the second hit of the day off DeMerritt. On the play Keyes rounded third and started for home but slid back to the base in the nick of time. Terrier third-baseman Thomas then rifled the ball back to first to catch Harvey off the bag, but the throw was low and went on through Poltrine. Keyes then scampered home with the winning...
...boom, sniffed opportunities ahead for anyone able to lay cash on the line for 1929's overvalued securities when the coming depression had undervalued them. In 1930-33, Odlum, with cash in hand, picked up control of enormous pools of capital by paying their hard-hit sponsors a few cents on their lately pyramided dollars. Out of Depression Atlas emerged as No. 1 U. S. investment trust (peak assets: $121,336,779 in 1933) and Odlum emerged as the U. S.'s newest tycoon, the only one extant who had done his pyramiding when other pyramids were crumbling...
...traditional standards are to be preserved, the hard-hit Departments must make full use of their hard-won privilege. The Faculty Dean's report may have sounded the final gong on the tenure fight, but there still has been no pay-off. To use a phrase of Dean Ferguson's the matter of the frozen associate professorships is still "unfinished business...