Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First and hardest job of "The Seeing Eye" is to train teachers. Only eight of the school's original 25 hand-picked candidates have so far survived the three-year course given by Geneticist Humphrey, who used to break wild horses at the Kansas City Stockyards. At the school's farm near Morristown, Mr. Humphrey and his staff keep prospective instructors following the dogs blindfolded for a month. From that point on the course becomes progressively more difficult. Most candidates, says Mr. Humphrey, have too little patience...
...took four days of the hardest going for Correspondent Steer to get back to Addis Ababa. Yet Benito Mussolini expected Marshal Badoglio to cover the same distance with his cumbersome army in three days, so as to give the Italian people a spectacular victory on the anniversary of the founding of Rome (April 21, 753 B. C.). In this dilemma Marshal Badoglio yelled for his colleague in the south, General Graziani, to take the puck...
...long distance, won the U. S. championship five times. Because of his swimming prowess he was asked to join the New York Athletic Club in 1925. When he took to utilizing the club's billiard tables, it naturally occurred to him to learn the game the longest, hardest way. He won the U. S. title in 1931, held it for four years thereafter. A 30-year-old auto-accessories salesman, expert at bridge and handball, he smokes incessantly, applauds good shots by pounding his cue on the floor, plays in a stiff shirt...
...only sound tradition about the Grand National, 4½ miles over the hardest course in the world, is that anything can happen. Just before Davy Jones took the second fence from the finish last week, one of his reins broke near the bit. The part of the crowd of 250,000 that was standing near the finish saw the Hon. Anthony Mildmay steer his father's horse desperately over the jump, but on the flat again Davy Jones veered sharply, ran off the course...
...addition to being the hardest steeplechase in the world, the Grand National is also occasion for one of the three great annual lotteries of the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes Committee. Twelve million dollars' worth of tickets were sold on last week's race, $7,000,000 worth of prizes given away. Of the $7,000,000, U. S. ticket holders got almost $3,000,000. In the past most U. S. holders of winning tickets have turned out to be impoverished eccentrics whose extravagances made good newspaper reading. The list of last week's major winners suggested that...