Word: hard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt learned that His Majesty likes a down puff at the foot of his bed, but Her Majesty does not. She equipped their beds in the White House with new springs & mattresses on the advice of her sons that the old ones were rock hard. She worried about the water being turned on in Mr. Roosevelt's "dream cottage" at Hyde Park, where royalty would picnic Sunday. Princess Te Ata, a Choctaw-Chickasaw half-breed from Oklahoma, was engaged to tell Indian tales at the Hyde Park hot-dog fest. Her newspaper syndicate announced that she would describe Their...
...good score, but it is to be expected that his justice might miscarry in some instances. And notable among these latter is the case of Professor Usher who has been characterized as "neither an economist nor, in the true sense, an historian," but rather "a collector of details--a hard working, conscientious gatherer of economic facts." Usher has done an excellent job in Ec. 133 (where I happen to have heard him) in tracing the pattern of economic development, and Mr. Bunde's failure to catch even a glimmering reflection of this pattern in the undergraduate course would indicate...
Bones in the Sky. Short, shaggy Dr. Charlie was a pioneer in goiter operations and surgery of the nervous system. Lacking the brilliance of Cleveland's George Washington Crile, the originality of Yale's Harvey Gushing, he ranked, by hard work and versatility, among the best U. S. surgeons...
...story's allegorical heroine is an intense, average-looking girl named Mary, daughter of a hard-bitten New England religious fanatic. A literal believer in Christ's Second Coming, in college Mary loses her faith because of a sociology professor, finds college boys a miserable substitute. Likewise synthetic is her marriage to a rich, cultured Jew. Renouncing his comfortable world, she seeks the true faith in vain in a factory, among the Communists, in an affair with a psychiatrist. Salvation comes when she meets David Markand, hero of Author Frank's last novel and Mary...
...Myouia's hard riding malletmen eked out an eight to six victory over the Crimson four on Saturday afternoon at the Myopia Hunt Club...