Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON has always advertised its competitions as the hardest form of extra-curricular activity available in the University. There are two very good reasons for this seemingly strange fact. In the first place it has always been the belief of CRIMSON editors that difficult forms of activity are eminently worth while in themselves, and that a college like Harvard will always contain a num- ber of men of a sufficiently adventurous spirts and virgorous nature to respond to the call of the admittedly difficult. The CRIMSON does not attempt to conceal the nature of its competitions because it wants only...
...hardest thing in every field of endeavor, and especially in art, is thinking,--clear, hard, clean thinking. Art itself, impossible to define, must be an 'intelligent abstraction from nature'" declared Harry Irvine, noted English character actor, in the course of an interview with a CRIMSON reporter...
...difficulty of the CRIMSON news competition has been well advertised. It has ben called the hardest of college competitions, and it probably is. At any rate, the editors take rather a pride in thinking so and saying so. The incipient candidate is deluded with no fond fairy tales; he is not told that it really isn't so hard after all when you actually get into it. He is warned that he is selling his soul and body into a nine weeks' bondage; yet he comes out just the same, and is idiot enough to tell his roommates...
Montpelier, capital of Vermont, near the junction of the Dog and Steven Rivers with the Winooski was one of the places hardest hit. Nearly 40 feet of water entered the city. First reports said 200 had died there. This figure proved 199 too large but entire blocks of Montpelier were destroyed around the foot of Capitol Hill...
...said (then) that "no man better personifies the insurgent spirit of Kansas." He helped split the Republican Party for Theodore Roosevelt. Of the Six Irreconcilables (the others were Senators La Follette, Cummins, Beveridge, Dolliver, Clapp) he, a veritable Irate Citizen out of some political cartoon, was the hardest worker. "The intensity of John Brown of Ossawatomie and the shrewdness of Vidocq, the French detective," were his. Now, surrounded by silos and shrubbery, he is a peaceable country gentleman with only a "La Follette Avenue" running through his subdivision to recall the stirring past...