Word: hard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dominated Fur Workers Union in Manhattan. Tossed into jail for two years after the incredible New York fur workers' strike of 1926,* Comrade Malkin nursed a grievance. But he remained a member until 1936, collected information, gossip, made statements that led Chairman Dies to observe: "It would be hard for the Chair to believe, if it were not for other information he has of the same kind...
From last week's series of upsets, the anonymous CRIMSON predictors emerged with a dubious 677 percentage. Nothing daunted and mumbling something about "Hard luck," the prognosticators once more attach themselves out on a limb and whisper: Harvard 20 Pennsylvania 14 Yale 7 Army 6 Princeton 13 Columbia 6 Dartmouth 20 Lafayette 6 Alabama 16 Tennessee 13 Cornell 13 Penn State 7 Temple 19 Boston College 14 Minnesota 7 Ohio State 6 Northwestern 12 Wisconsin 6 Texas A. & M. 14T. C. U. 12 Michigan 61 Chicago 0 Notre Dame 13 Navy 0 Pittsburgh 20 Duquesne 7 Holy Cross 14 Brown...
...they may, no strength and no artifice will ever succeed in banishing from the human life the ills and troubles which beset it. If any, there are those who pretend differently-- who hold out to a hard pressed people freedom from pain and trouble, undisturbed repose and constant enjoyment--then cheat the people and impose upon them their lying promises only making the evil worse than before. The high debt of 40 billion for a nation of 130,000,000 inhabitants together with over 10,000,000 unemployed should be much more our common concern than the happenings in Europe...
...Graduate Secretary of the Brooks House claimed knowledge of at least two men who have collected between $1.50 and $4 in three hours with their hard-luck stories. "One of these men is Albert Pike, who is known to several agencies in Boston and Cambridge as a steady and consistent sponger, whose story is invariably convincing," Dennett stated...
...fewer children." It means that the Princeton man--if he has any hope of survival--faces a serious future. He must forget his clubs, his tweeds, his weekends, especially his New York (whose results, after all, don't count in the official survey) and concentrate on four years of hard study. The higher ranking the student, the greater chance for children. Let the midnight oil flow, let the pages of Aristotle turn, and the Princeton boy will grow to manhood and become the apple of the census-taker...