Word: hard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S Cinema Editor is in some ways hard of hearing...
...Sweden and Norway, though next in line if the Russian march was really a march to the North Sea, evinced great sympathy, mobilized men on their eastern borders, but were accounted unlikely to fight. Answer to the first question seemed to reside in the iron-hard souls and bodies of the Finns. Their Commander in Chief, Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, struck their battle note as follows...
...last war, most of the sweep volunteers were fishermen, whose hard-boiledness is widely advertised now by their radio telephones. Magnificent profanity, ribald bets and sweepstakes played against death filled the short-wave bands. The Royal Navy makes no attempt to discipline these mariners, whose women are busy at home weaving nets for artillery camouflage. The special naval rank of "Skipper" is accorded their captains, and when they talk with His Majesty's officers they don't bother to salute, remove pipes or cigarets from mouths, or hands from pockets. The Royal Navy appreciates what tough work...
...outstanding ability local sportswriters generally conclude their remarks about the squad with the ancient blurb, "--but the spirit is fine!" It is the choice of this writer to start, rather than conclude, his remarks with the blurb, for if what is called 'spirit' now can be translated into hard training for the duration of the season, then something tangible will have been achieved in the way of improvement. This, Coach Ulen will tell you, comes only from practice of the most strenuous sort...
...they went on several bus trips together; at any rate, it's a good sign of the will to work which is about 90% of being a good swimmer (5% is natural ability; 5% guts). Dave Stearns, leader of the '42 team, typifies the Sophomores: he has spirit--works hard and once tried unsuccessfully to throw a newspaperman into the pool: he has a measure of speed, and he enjoys pulling his rotund body through the water. So do his classmates. With these things in mind, Mr. Ulen, who hasn't had a n natural swimmer since Art Bosworth...