Word: hard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Eventually paroled, Robert entered a teachers' college at Tempe, Ariz. His classmates found him hard to understand, envied his ability to wangle high marks with hardly any study. His teacher of public speaking was puzzled when Robert handed in an outline for a speech entitled "Murder," describing a "perfect crime." Recently Robert's acquaintances noticed that he was acting even more queerly than usual. He moved out of his dormitory, took a room in a hotel...
...States had been off their jobs since April i, but they technically were not on strike. Last week this pretense was abandoned. In 17 more States (principally in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Colorado) 125,000 more Lewis miners stopped work at a word from him. In Pennsylvania, 100,000 hard-coal miners were ready to go out this week, should anthracite operators prove as stubborn as their bituminous brothers had been...
Yale is definitely the boat to beat, and on the dead water of Princeton's lake, the Crimson will have a hard pull but indications are in its favor, while Princeton does not present much of a threat...
...political plums on jobs of this sort. It is up to the people of Cambridge to sign the petition and to prove to the Mayor that they want the housing project, and that they want it without plum trees. With the mayoralty election coming up next fall, it is hard to conceive of Mayor Lyons deliberately opposing the desires of the voters...
Healey was pitted against Indian ace, Chief Wonson, and Tom ran into trouble right from the start. His control wasn't quite what it can be, and the Indians made him work pretty hard. Hanna opened up by drawing a pass, and then Gus Broberg exploded the first ball pitched to him for a home run into some broken down right field bleachers...