Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This winter the western half of the U.S. got its worst weather in history, and the eastern half some of its mildest. The U.S. Weather Bureau, looking on the dark (or cold) side, regards the 1948-49 winter as the hardest ever-worse in most respects than the winter of 1937. The records are not all in (spring does not come officially until March 21), but already the bureau has a fine collection of weather aberrations and never-befores...
...Hard Part. The details of Koerner's painted stories are never made up; he includes only things he has seen, and usually he does it vividly enough to convince others of their reality. "The hardest thing for me is to find the right details. I do it just by thinking back. I'm depressed then, and my stomach aches. But sometimes a friend will call me and say, 'Henry, I was out driving and I found the scene you used in such & such a picture.' It's never true of course, but it makes...
...Raise. Herbert Hoover, one of the hardest pluggers for a raise for Harry Truman, declared that the President was lucky if he had enough left out of his salary for cigarette money (Truman doesn't smoke). Actually, Truman told friends, after he pays his $30,000 income tax, he averages about $80 a week take-home...
From 8 p.m. on, a third network, ABC, entered the struggle for Sunday night listeners. With the freehanded giveaway show Stop the Music (19.2%) and Walter Winchell (who currently leads the field with the top Hooper of 29.7%), ABC has clearly distanced its older rivals. Hardest hit in the percentage battle is bag-eyed Fred Allen, who dropped below CBS's Adventures of Sam Spade, as well as ABC's Stop the Music...
...first year of wrestling. Shapiro triumphed in a jayvee match earlier this year. He replaces Buddy King, who will be unable to make the trip, and his main objective against Columbia's third best wrestler, Ed Naumann, will be to avert a pin. Jordan describes Shapiro as "the hardest working kid on the squad, except...