Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take charge of the White House telephone switchboard. Mr. Roosevelt was "delighted" with the set-up for the Inaugural, as revealed by the first official copy of the program. Nothing remained but for him to go to Washington and take over the biggest job in the nation at the hardest period in its history...
...hits his backhand shots with both hands. As soon as they started to play, they found out more. In last week's quarter-finals at Melbourne, Vivian McGrath played Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr., U. S. and Wimbledon champion, who had beaten him before. Whacking Vines's hardest serves with his two-handed backhand, McGrath won smartly...
...Blaxter '33 and S.G. Haskins '35 scored for the University when they defeated their Boat Club opponents. Two of the matches in this contest were defaulted to the club men. The Freshman D team played its hardest, but was outclassed by the Union Boat Club...
...There remained to distinguish the hotel room from hundreds of others ready to be abandoned only a photograph of big-chested Enrico Caruso in a white-piped vest and a little bronze head which Caruso had made of himself. The man who waited nervously for the elevator had the hardest afternoon of his life ahead of him. He was Baritone Antonio Scotti, one of the last of the old-time opera-singers. That afternoon after 33 years at the Metropolitan he was singing his farewell...
...first two chukkers; and both teams made a point in the third. By this time the Crimson had caught its second wind, and started off the fourth period with a rush, scoring four times in rapid succession, and, for a while, tying the Greenshirts. The fifth chukker saw the hardest riding of the evening, with one point scored by the Varsity. The sixth and last meeting was tight and studied, each team striving to shove home the deciding point and at the same time ride off its opponent...