Word: hardening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berliners seeking "Strength through Joy" may harden their muscles in a Rugby football scrum, or do push-ups in unison, but may no longer cycle, climb mountains, or ski in organized groups...
Senator Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo, lagging some five years behind Pittsburgh Industrialist Samuel Harden Church, proposed a million-dollar reward for the capture of Hitler, whose death he doubted. Church and some other well-heeled Pittsburghers had put up their own money; Bilbo had taxpayers' money in mind...
...corn crop is very short, it will be impossible to fatten enough cattle and hogs, even if prices make fattening profitable-light beef of inferior quality may be forced on the market when ranges dry up. Conversely, if the weather continues wet and the corn fails to harden before frost, there may be so much soft corn, unfit for storage, that too many cattle will be kept on that cheap feed instead of going to market...
...They have to go through such antics as calisthenics and close-order drill (to harden them up, explains the Army...
...fear while being strapped into the chair. Took it just as calmly. As a matter of fact, he asked only one question. Just before they turned on the juice, he glanced at the official electrocutioner and said, 'By the way, bud, is this AC or DC?' " JOHN HARDEN...