Word: hardest
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Excelling in his portraits of children and young married folk. Author Weller finds his hardest going in sketches of addled Bohemians and wistful old maids, breaks down entirely in his account of a nudist, makes little progress with his concluding story of an aged widow who looks forward to still greater mechanical marvels and wants to live to see them. His book is too crowded with well-to-do eccentrics to be a representative U. S. study. But literary motorists will object most to its pace, and reflect that no nation of murderously fast drivers ever chugged along so safely...
Among contemporary U. S. novelists, William Faulkner has the distinction of being one of the most powerful, certainly the least predictable, usually the hardest to read. Although he is the master of a swift and straightforward narrative prose that he has demonstrated in Sanctuary and other works, the plots of his stories are usually deliberately obscured until they resemble cyphers requiring careful study before they can be understood. Apparently only interested in such readers as are willing to work. Author Faulkner has compared story telling with the action of a man dealing cards out of a pack, and unobtrusively dropping...
Weeks of the hardest kind of work and effort were rewarded Saturday when Harvard's football eleven rose to inspired heights to claw the Princeton Tiger into submission and earn...
...aren't trying to write a modern Horatio Alger story, but just refuting this story and incidentally filling up this space; and incidentally again, football isn't necessarily the hardest extra-curiricular activity there is. There are others that take up almost as much time and run throughout the year--publications, dramatics, P. B. H., Glee Club. These go from September to June and no great cry about the awful amount of time...
Even less solid stuff in which to sink a pen has been furnished by the New Deal's vast social and economic innovations. Republicans have jabbed hardest and oftenest at Spending & Taxation, with frequent digs at the Red Issue, Relief Corruption, Regimentation, Unemployment, Foreign Farm Imports. Democratic favorites have been Recovery and the Interests, nicely combined in pictures of plutocratic Old Deal ingrates howling calamity against a background of soaring business graphs and smoking factories...