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Word: hardest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kefauver-type campaign, featuring handshaking, baby-kissing and folksy platitudes. Yet Stevenson has impressive backing in Milwaukee, Madison, Kenosha and Racine: at a recent Milwaukee County meeting of Democratic leaders, a straw vote went 19 to 3 for Stevenson over Kefauver. Wisconsin may be one of the hardest primaries for Stevenson-and it could be the one to assure his nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Primary Problems | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

Columnist Perez. The hardest blow was struck by Columnist Milton Guss in the English-language Havana Post, which usually carries Pearson's column. Instead, Guss introduced readers to "Don Perez,' famous Havana columnist, whose predictions are 98% correct-2% of the time." Wrote Guss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pearson in Bongoland | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

Walter Matthau, as prize-winning playwright Michael Freeman, emerges from the affair with more dignity than his fellows, though this is little enough. His remarks about the second play being the hardest are unfortunate as far as Axclrod is concerned, but they are certainly borne out with disturbing accuracy...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? | 9/30/1955 | See Source »

...gentle--the line will certainly be larger. More than one amateur coach has drifted over from varsity practice to note that "these are very big people to be called Yardlings." And if it is not now very graceful, and if these very big freshmen are at present fighting themselves hardest, it is likely that Margarita, who demonstrates and practices without benefit of pads, will be able to cure that...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 9/29/1955 | See Source »

...driller that cuts the hardest metal-e.g., tungsten carbide-without touching it. Made by Cincinnati Milling Machine Co., the cutting edge is a stream of electrons a sort of manmade lightning. ¶A lathe with a mechanical brain, which computes the correct cutting speed for each job. Its makers, Monarch Machine Tool Co. of Sidney, Ohio, estimate that the brain alone can increase production 25% ¶A Cleveland Tapping Machine Co device that cuts threads on iron pipe fittings at the rate of 85 feet a minute, producing 1,480 fittings an hour, compared to the previous standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Mechanized Marvels | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

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