Word: hardbitten
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...Hardbitten as Dr. Andrews is, the Gobi fascinates him. Occasionally it makes him poetize. Writes he toward the end of his narrative: "Wandering over the brick-red sediments all of us eventually arrived at an isolated cone-shaped butte. From its low summit we looked down upon a relief map of rounded hillocks, tiny flat plains and miniature ravines. Almost every inch was covered with animal footprints...
Kiplingites will remember with a pleased grin, anti-Kiplingites with a shudder, that very Kiplingesque creature "Mrs. Hauksbee," the hardbitten, hard-headed Anglo-Indian army wife in Plain Tales from the Hills who knew what was what, was fond of uttering scraps of omniscience in scriptural Kiplingo. In English Authoress Ann Bridge's heroine, Mrs. LeRoy, Kipling readers will recognize a perfect re-edition of Mrs. Hauksbee. Mrs. LeRoy, empire-building wife of an oriental expert, has to live at the British Legation at Peking while her children are at school in England. Time: the unpleasant present...
...court approval. But La Salle & Wall Streets, noting $65,000,000 of maturities in the next few months, wondered whether the three companies' long term mortgage bonds (to be used for refunding) would not sell better with a change in management. New chairman of all three will be hardbitten, hard-working James Simpson, board chairman of Marshall Field & Co., a position he promptly resigned last week. Fortnight ago he hurried back from India (by boat and plane in 14 days). As vice chairman the "Instill" companies will still have Samuel Insull Jr., familiar with personnel & problems...
Quiet Graham Bethune Grosvenor was president of wide-flung Aviation Corp. for two years when he was succeeded by hardbitten Frederic Gallup Coburn. President Coburn had served approximately two years last week when suddenly he relinquished the executive office on the 47th floor of Manhattan's Chanin Building to a broad-framed young man with a grin and a pipe. It was not surprising that the name of the president-elect, La Motte Turck Cohu, should be better known in Wall Street than in airway operations. Avco, which has yet to show black ink on a profit & loss statement...
...Harvey made his discovery, the first in modern physiology, by vivisection which "has always been my delight." He was a hardbitten, "small and choleric" man, physician to both Kings James I and Charles I of England. Of Francis Lord Bacon, philosopher and statesman, who was his patient, he once sneered: "He writes philosophy like a lord chancellor. I have cured...