Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit to the stables of Santa Anita race track, Turfwoman Elizabeth Arden Graham stopped to pet one of her surest stakes winners ($349,642 in 1957), Jewel's Reward, got no reward herself: the surly four-year-old chomped hard, nipped off the end of her right index finger...
From one of its steadiest suppliers, a British frozen-food company received a chilly ultimatum: either boost its price for peas (currently $126 a ton) or move all that pea-picking machinery off the Norfolk property. The hard-bargaining farm owner: Queen Elizabeth...
...Force General Nathan Twining, his rakish fedora and hail-fellow grin somewhat more suggestive of a precinct boss on election night than a hard-working Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, showed up in mufti, as he often does, for a brass-tacks Monday conference with the President on military matters...
Last week Rosetta, now a bright-faced, brown-haired 17-year-old, was still getting used to learning from a teacher in a classroom. She is enrolled in Christchurch Training College, hopes to attend Canterbury University College next year. Note taking is hard for her; lectures in person are faster than by radio. The novelty of having other students to talk with is pleasant, although Rosetta is not sure she likes the clamor of bustling (pop. 210,000) Christchurch. Her goal: to prepare correspondence courses, teach arts and crafts for the same radio school that gave her an education during...
Though it has come on hard times, the Villa Savoye is a landmark-if not a classic beauty-of architecture, ranked by many architectural historians as the modern house second in importance only to Frank Lloyd Wright's low-roofed, deep-shadowed 1909 Robie House in Chicago...