Word: hardest
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...which demands only a reading knowledge of one modern language would save more than half the members of the 1935 football squad, otherwise ineligible to compete for the Varsity. In the old days, when Harvard demanded two languages and put the failures on probation, the football squad was the hardest hit by the regulation...
With an Intercollegiate League championship possibly in the balance as the result of today's encounter, it seems likely that baseball fans will witness one of the closest and hardest fought games of the season. The Cambridge outfit is at present tied for second place with the Lions and hot on the heels of Dartmouth, which now leads by the narrow margin of a half game, whereas the Nassan nine stands in fourth place...
...East of the Mississippi, and particularly in the Ohio Valley where the soil was moist, crops were in good condition. But west of the river, in the ten States chiefly affected by drought and dust, more than 40% of the winter wheat seeded last autumn was expected to fail. Hardest hit was Kansas where rainfall in March was only 56% of normal and the crop 47% of normal. Last week six Kansas counties reported their wheat crop a total failure. In the spring wheat States (Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin) the yield of the crop now being...
...conventional stagecraft is chiefly the art of illusion, the technique by which an accomplished monologist makes real a panel of wholly imaginative characters is sheer sorcery. At performing the hardest of the theatre's tricks, Monologist Cornelia Otis Skinner is a topnotch sorceress...
...Oxford coxswain, Bryan, steered smartly toward the Surrey side. For the first time in the race his boat kept up but at Duke's Meadow bend a strong tide-pull stole the gain. At Chiswick, with Oxford nearly four lengths behind, the crews settled down to the hardest rowing of the race. At Barnes Bridge, Oxford made its final challenge. The stroke went up, 32 to Cambridge's 30, and the Dark Blue boat gained a length. But Cambridge met the challenge and the race was won-by 4½ lengths at the finish, twelfth victory for Cambridge...