Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Corey Wynn, the coach of the freshmen tennis team, the match against Exeter this afternoon will be the hardest one his charges have faced so far. The yardling squad this season has defeated Milton Academy, the Boston University freshmen, and Deerfield Academy...
Eliot is the hardest-hitting club. Roger Pugh, Jack Merril, Gordle Allen, Dick Saul, and Jim Rosslter are all dependable at the plate. Pugh is also a fine catcher, and Merril is a flashy and ubiquitous centerfielder...
...filling another of baseball's great deficiencies: they had fresh pitching talent that could survive nine innings. They had big (6 ft. 3½ in.) Gene Bearden, who won 20 and lost 7 last year, plus assorted ablebodied veterans. In Manager Lou Boudreau they also had the smartest, hardest-hitting shortstop in baseball...
Most Länder governments are nearly broke. One million among West Germany's 45,000,000 are unemployed. Typically, one-third of the new unemployed are in the building trades-precisely where Germans should be at their hardest work, providing roofs for the millions of homeless in cellars and bunkers. West Germany's living standard is rising; but at the same time, the gap between the wealthy few and the great mass of workers is widening ever faster...
...huge companies have lost their "personalities," Ford complained, and their millions of workers do not feel the "stimulation of the contest that excites" management. Bringing workers and consumers into greater sympathy with them is the large corporations' hardest job, Ford stated...