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Word: hardest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Glidden, three times National Champion, combines incredible speed of foot with a superb soft game. The Pools, Larry and Beckman, won their way to the top with two radically different types of play. Beekman has become almost a legond an the hardest hitting titlist in the history of the game, while Larry's claim to fame lies in amazing accuracy and endurance. Dixon and Rawlins are flawless stylists; the former was one of the earliest of Crimson squash luminaries produced by Harry Cowics...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Waht's His Number? | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...real dauger lies elsewhere, that from the professional agitators; so far we have only abotted them. For the "isms" are symptomatic of fear and unrest, and we have given them the very atmosphere of persecution and hysteria on which they thrive, driving them underground where they will be hardest to destroy. The essence of democracy is clear thinking and tolerance. We take ourselves too seriously. A country with a sense of humour need fear no Revolution. Hugh Barbour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: About Communism | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

...Second and hardest working: After the Thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...right after the operation. A patient swallows air through his mouth, pushes it right out again with his abdominal muscles, chops it into speech with his teeth, tongue and lips as he expels it. Easiest type of word to learn is one like "church," formed with teeth and lips. Hardest is a guttural sound in the back of the throat, like "gang." Belch-talk is easy to understand but so husky that patients are often asked if they have a cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Belch-Talk | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...customer Hollywood tries hardest to please, according to Author Thorp, is the wife of a man earning more than $1,500, living in a city of more than 50,000 people. Her husband is the movies' average man and from his pockets comes more than half of Hollywood's yearly revenues. To his average wife Hollywood sells dreams of luxury and love more expertly unreal than her own imagination, experience and daring could ever make them. "What the adult American female chiefly asks of the movies is the opportunity to escape by reverie from an existence which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Who, What and How | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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