Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wetmore '30, and is awarded annually to "the player who is of greatest value to Harvard hockey, not so much because of his ability but because of his heart." The idea behind the award is to present this trophy not necessarily to the best player nor again to the hardest worker, but to the player who best exemplifies John Tudor's qualities. Tudor was captain of the 1928-29 sextet, having played three successive seasons, and was graduated a year ago last June. He was killed in an automobile accident in Fall River in the summer...
English employers pay African labor only 10¢ a day for the hardest kind of work, declared the Paramount Chief indignantly "and our people are often punished for breaking laws that they never knew existed...
...Such opportunity the American Museum, on its 62nd birthday, offers in unparalleled measure?travel, exploration, research, adventure, laboratory or book work, but always work of the hardest kind. Only those on the inside can form the faintest idea of what 'Life's fighting line' in the American Museum means. First, it means keeping yourself in sound physical and mental condition which is impossible if you yield to dissipation; second, it means dogged persistence in the face of what appear to be insuperable difficulties; third, it means that you must deny yourself many of the thousand opportunities which surround...
Steffens' most noteworthy trait was his ability as an interviewer. From the hardest-boiled bosses he wrung the most astounding admissions. Modestly he explains his success by attributing it to a realization of his own sinfulness. Once he had stepped out of the reformer's attitude; "I was never again mistaken for an honest man by a crook. . . . The politicians . . . and the consciously corrupting business leaders have ever since acted with me upon the understanding that I was one of them. It facilitated my work; it explains much of my success in getting at the facts...
...Hardest hit by Nicaraguan banditry and the new Hoover policy was Standard Fruit & Steamship Co. of New Orleans. Controlled by the Brothers Vaccaro, Standard Fruit has a $13,000,000 investment in northeastern Nicaragua, including 180,000 acres of banana and timber land and 65 mi. of railroad. Seven of its employes had been murdered. Fifty thousand "stems" (bunches) of bananas were rotting for lack of transportation. Inland plantations were paralyzed. Activities at Puerto Cabezas were suspended. Vainly in Washington did William Cyprien Dufour, Standard Fruit's attorney, plead for military protection in land. Washington Irving Moss, Standard's chairman...