Word: hard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite a strong last chukker rally which netted them six goals, the Harvard polo team found itself on the short end of a 12 to 7 score to a hard-riding Eli quartet in New Harvard Saturday, Gay Dillingham of Harvard was the game's individual star with six goals, and Yale's Captain Johnson was a defensive standout...
Professor Sorokin pointed out that the professors who were on the Committee were hard on the lower ranks. "The report did not at all reduce the salaries of the full professors, especi- ally the and reporting them and twelve thousand a year, and quite sharply reduced the salaries of the lower ranks," he said...
Rough water from the wake of several pleasure boats made rowing difficult at first, and Jack Wilson found it hard to settle the stroke down to the usual 32, but once he was able to the crew responded beautifully and spaced out well...
...Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., which is running the Rochester experiment, normally buys food direct from farmers, cooperatives, etc., and distributes it to the needy through 22,647 outlets in charge of local and State relief agencies. Many are inefficient, careless, hard to deal with, and FSCC is far from satisfied with its own system. So are retailers, who complain that the farm-to-stomach route cuts them out of much business...
...Douglas achieve political office. Then he was elected alderman by the town-&-gown black-&-white fifth ward, became the most sensemaking of the 50 members of Chicago's City Council. Last week Professor-Alderman Douglas, having encountered one of the things that make a politician's life hard, devised his own way of facing it To his constituents he issued a typewritten appeal...