Word: hard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four members of the Mountaineering Club speeded up to New Hampshire Sunday to scramble around in Huntington's Ravine and returned later only to find conditions much more favorable in Harvard Square. "The ice wasn't hard enough up there," they sulked; "but it's the nuts on the snow banks in the Square...
...returning to Cambridge, they saw Harvard Square piled high with hard-packed ice and immediately took to their picks and tongs. One mountaineer was heard to say, "It's even more fun to scale the mighty snow drifts than build smooth babes out of snow...
...every 100 U. S. citizens who have heard of Thomas Alva Edison, it would be hard to find one who has heard of Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903). Some years ago, however, a gathering of British scientists spouting learned chitchat in a cafe voted Gibbs no less than the greatest U. S. scientist ever...
...lifelong bachelor, Gibbs was a quiet, modest man. At Yale, where he did his major work, most of the students not only did not know he was a great man ; they did not even know he existed. His colleagues admired him but found his recondite researches hard to understand. Like Albert Einstein, Josiah Willard Gibbs was not an experimenter but a thinker...
...that epitome of capitalism, Marshall Field & Co., was hard-pressed enough to give a New Deal idea a try. Having lost $13,200,000 in the four previous years, the worried directors hired an ex-professor named James O. McKinsey to diagnose the case. Business Analyst McKinsey so impressed the directors that they soon made him chairman and absolute dictator of company policy (TIME...