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Word: hardest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton finger men accounting the game reported that he was the hardest-fighting man in the Harvard line. His name is Ernie Sergeant, and he will sit in the stands tomorrow and never wear a major H, because a head injury has ended football...

Author: By Sponsor Kisw, | Title: What's His Number? | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

...strong German protest that the internment of the Nazi prize crew that captured the U. S. freighter City of Flint was an unfriendly act. Little Yugoslavia mustered enough independence to send home unsatisfied a Nazi trade delegation that had tried to increase delivery of goods to Germany. Rumania, hardest-pressed of the Balkans, felt secure enough from Nazi wrath to decrease her oil deliveries from 4,100 tons to less than 3,000 tons daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Encircled | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...French horn (musicians call it simply the "horn") is far & away the hardest of all brass instruments to play. Horn-blowers must have sensitive lips as well as stout lungs. Ellen Stone first tried her lips and lungs on a French horn six years ago, in the Teaneck, N. J. high-school band, when she was 16. Says she: "After three days I wouldn't have given it up for worlds. I felt comfortable on it." By now she sounds comfortable on it, but it took some doing. She practiced from morning to night-in the garage whither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Little Girl Blue | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Said he: "Let us at least leave God as a neutral." In John Bull, Rev. William McCormick, popularly known as "Pat" McCormick, of St. Martins-in-the-Fields, hazarded that "God must hate it all ... the evil behind this use of force, the misery and suffering. . . . His is the hardest part. He's in the midst of all the suffering because . . . Germans and Allies alike . . . we're all his children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God This, God That | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Besides checking creditably the Penn attack on his side, Bill Coleman was one of the hardest hitting blockers on the field. Harlan Gustafson, who had more than his share of the glory, remarked after the game that he had never been blocked harder than by Coleman

Author: By Sheffield West, | Title: Crimson Not Discouraged After 22 to 7 Setback at Hands of Powerful Quakers | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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