Word: hardier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...healthier than women, in the sense that they complain of fewer illnesses and stay home from work less often. But women are hardier and live longer. Dr. Lawrence E. Hinkle Jr., 41, reporting this seemingly contradictory finding (by a New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center research team), explains it thus: women have fewer of the serious disorders (notably heart and artery diseases) that kill men in their prime...
...Sunday morning a combination treasure hunt, weekend outing, and driving test will get underway from the water pump at the B-School. Approximately 60 miles later the hardier members of the Harvard Motor Sports Club should be relaxing at the Thompson raceway in Thompson, Conn. They will have completed their first rally of the year...
...possibility that it may become another Indo-China, closer to home-is the one unknowable in all comfortable calculations about the future of parliamentary democracy in France. In such a crisis, Pierre Poujade, who now waves an uncertain banner before his followers, may lose them to a leader of hardier intent, or discover his own opportunity for power...
...PLANT STRAINS. Sweden's Ake Gustafsson reported that seeds exposed to atomic radiation, notably barley, new wheat, peas, flax, tomatoes, had produced new, hardier strains by mutation. In the future, said Gustafsson, new breeds of plants can be developed to produce healthy crops almost anywhere in the world...
This is the picture that Actor Marlon Brando, after signing to play the title role, ran away from just as the cameras were about to start grinding at him, shouting over his shoulder that he had to see his psychiatrist in a hurry. Still, for moviegoers who feel hardier than Brando and can stand up to the broadsides of grandeur, The Egyptian has a kind of blurby, big-adjective poetry about...