Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newsstands six days before Welfare Island made big black headlines. In that smartchart was an article about the prison which knowingly described most of the evil conditions uncovered by the raid. Its author was a onetime deputy Commissioner of Correction, Joseph Fulling Fishman, who calls Welfare Island "the hardest prison in the world to manage." He points to its unparalleled turnover of 30,000 inmates a year, remarks that it harbors more drug cases (1,200 a year) than all Federal prisons combined,* more homosexuals (200) and alcoholics (1,500) than any other U. S. penal institution. Only untimely...
...hated school, failed his examinations. When his outraged parents put him in a stricter religious school he ran away. A book called Do Not Go to America decided him to emigrate to the U. S. Landed there at 14 without knowing a word of English, he went to the hardest school of all: dug ditches, loaded freight, welded metals, wove textiles, swept floors, waited on tables. He learned to read English, to write. Editor Henry Louis Mencken encouraged him. Adamic wrote a history of U. S. labor troubles (Dynamite), a book about his U. S. experiences (Laughing in the Jungle...
...portion of the Massachusetts liquor control legislation which strikes the hardest at Harvard and other Universities in the Commonwealth is that limiting the consumption of intoxicating beverages to those over twenty-one. Paradoxically, it is this portion of the law which has the least effect on those consuming liquor in restaurants and other public dispensaries. There is, in practice, only a very slight pretence at enforcement of this clause elsewhere than in places so rigidly controlled as the House Dining Halls. In any Boston restaurant or tavern, a boy of sixteen who is gifted with a mature face and bearing...
...first goal of the game was made after only 29 seconds of play, when Captain Crutchfield carried the puck the length of the ice, and passed to McGill, the hardest shooter in the Canadian circuit, who drove the rubber into the net from the dasher. The next three McGill goals came at the end of the first stanza, all within a period of 30 seconds. The Scarlet skaters rang up three more tallies in the second period, again through four and five man rushes...
...definitely known whether Arthur B. Sullivan '34, who boxed last year in the 145-pound class, will return to the squad; Sullivan was considered to have been one of the hardest hitting men to appear in years, and was expected to accomplish much in the present season...