Word: hard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gilkey, John Palfrey, Chet Legg, and Jack Stewart of the Crimson dropped their singles matches, but not without a close fight in each instance. Two of the three doubles contests were carried into the third set, but both times the Florida boys simply had too many guns for their hard-working but slightly outclassed Harvard opponents...
That there are students capable of tutoring well may be seen from two things. First is the Undergraduate Faculty, where the tutoring must have at least enough to it to keep the tutees coming back, although many of them are hard pressed for time. Second is the even more significant fact that many students, unable to find legitimate tutoring jobs, have gone to work for the tutoring schools. There they lost any personal interest and pride in their pupils. They were restricted principally to giving reviews just prior to exams to students who had by then lost any desire...
...have been having a hard time smoothing out their stroke according to the Cornell Daily Sun, but a wealth of good material puts them in live in a successful season. Most of the defeats under which the Cornell eight is laboring, such as poor timing and ragged control of the slides, are sings of an early season crew, and they can soon be ironed...
...importunate salesman sold Mrs. E. Renwick a refrigerator, had the law on her when she was unable to pay the installments. Snorted the indignant judge: "The only way to treat people who badger for sales is to take them by the scruff of the neck and kick them as hard as possible on the soft part of their anatomy." Verdict: Mrs. Renwick can have 2,160 years...
...Sarah Easton, a rawboned, middle-aged woman with an eroded face, was "raised hard." She lives with her moon-faced husband and their 16-year-old twin daughters in a neat, sagging one-room shack near Raleigh, N. C. They live on $4 or $5 a week, remember good times when they had $12. They own a 1924 Dodge but can't afford to run it. Years ago, discouraged by debts and annual babies, John started drinking "like a hog in a bucket of slops." But when Sarah drank cotton-root tea to bring on a nearly fatal miscarriage...