Word: hardier
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...older and hardier of the 2,200 guests manfully carried on, consumed three tons of the quasi-edible mélange. The $7.50 guests could take it in the dining room; the $5 crowd could fight for it, or away from it, at a buffet board. Many a farsighted Montrealer had booked rooms in the hotel days in advance, to drink rye or gin, and imported champagne at $30 a magnum...
...like strawberry runners. Its big leaves, shed each fall, eventually cover the ground with a thick, flaky carpet like a forest floor. Because it may be winterkilled by hard frosts, it has so far been grown only in the South, but the Department of Agriculture is trying to breed hardier strains...
...chill midnight of Friday the 13th, a band of the hardier villagers heaved the long grey slab back into place. Next morning the stone was all awry again. Across it, spelled out in faggots from a nearby oak, were the words: "Non in sum." Yokels gawked until a Latinizing G.I. translated: "Nobody home...
...example, when Marquis wheat was introduced, it stood off stem rusts but developed "head blighter scab"; Durham wheat overcame scab but succumbed to root rot. Kota, the next wheat hope, yielded to smut. Stakman, collaborating with the Department of Agriculture, has developed hardier & hardier wheat. But No. 56 has baffled him for 16 years...
...quartet consisting of Vinal, Windhurst, Schwarz, and Hart will play for the jazz fans, the intellectual curious, and the hardier dancers beginning a week from Friday night. Of course you can never tell who might sit in. An intriguing possibility presents itself when Louis Armstrong comes to Boston. Since the hand plays a good many of Louis' old tunes, such as "Muskrat Ramble," "Dippermouth Blues,' "Struttin' With Some Barbecue," "Sunset Cafe Stomp," "Big Butter and Egg Man," "Come Back Sweet Papa," and "Squeeze Me," you might stumble into the master himself dipping back into his very colorful past to play...