Word: hardier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dinghy sailors can always find a race somewhere. The Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association conducts a host of regattas in the fall and spring, and in the winter the Marblehead and other "frostbite" races never fail to lure hardier college yachtsmen, some of whom insist on racing in shorts...
...Will Shakespeare's home town flocked the first arrivals of the 150,000 money-bearing pilgrims from some 75 countries who are expected to come, gawk, worship and spend before the first leaves fall. The hardier Bardolators (as one London critic calls them) will swarm for "Bed, Bard and Breakfast" to Stratford's 45 hotels and 47 guest houses. They will also get their fill of the master's works- eight plays a week in the $1,000,000 riverside Shakespeare Memorial Theater...
Complaints from the parents are noted down on the chart and new sitters are sent out to try their hand with the babies. Several mothers have called to report that a sitter scared their children, and Holt shifted the over brutal students to families with hardier babies...
There is an account of the two religious sects of the Utopians; one of these sects abstains from meat and also from marriage, the other sect "love the flesh of four-footed beastes, bicause they beleve that by that meat they be made hardier and stronger to woorke. The Utopians counte this secte the wiser, but the other the holier...
Monkey performed so well at siring a new breed that now all the cattle on the ranch are descended from him. The Santa Gertrudis breed, which is now widely sought wherever there is year-round grass feeding, has one great moneymaking virtue: it is hardier and grows heavier on grass feeding than any other...