Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than 4,000 fakes. Cheery, un- daunted, he admitted that the collection he had sold to the Millet Museum at Barbizon was entirely sham. Said he: "I had a good time, but this is the unconventional unhappy ending. The Americans from Missouri, the Continentals and the English fell the hardest. I hope to emerge triumphant, and go back into the art selling business...
...hardest things a U. S. citizen can attempt in Russia is to convince the Soviet citizens he meets that Uncle Sam is not busy sharpening a bayonet which he means some day to plunge into the Russian Bear. Millions of Russians believe today in "the inevitability of the international class war": Communism v. Capitalism. Example: When the Naval Conference met in London, leading Moscow papers printed an "exposé" in which the "real purpose" of Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald in calling the Conference was alleged to be the hatching of a plot for concerted action by the Capitalist Powers against...
...preparation for this afternoon B. U. has held several practice encounters between the first and second teams, In these games the B. U. squad showed promise of being a decidedly hard-hitting group. Sports writers call it the hardest batting Pioneer team for five years. Mike Judkins, at first base for B. U. is one of the strongest batsmen of the squad. Rated close to him in excellence in wielding the stick is Del Pickard who will catch today's game...
...from the Freshman team that beat Yale last Spring and Samborski eligible again after a season on the side lines the pitching staff seems well fortified. Mitchell will have four starting hurlers that he can call upon for duty at any time. The quartet will also be about the hardest hitting pitching staff that Mitchell has gathered together for some time. Because of his exceptional ability to crack the ball Samborski is likely to be used in the outfield while not performing on the mound. The other half of the battery question seems far from being solved, however. Batchelder...
...cent nickel and 81.29 per cent iron. This is an unusually high proportion of nickel. It is not surprising, therefore, that the meteor is extremely hard and especially tough. Investigation with a file led to the estimate that this nickel-iron alloy compares in hardness with the hardest steel used on railroads. An idea of the toughness may be obtained from the fact that it took fully two hours of sawing and more than a dozen hacksaw blades to saw off a piece with a surface of only two inches...