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Word: hardiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...start toward making up this shortage. Their production was delayed by the frequent changes of plans, necessitated by new inventions and experiments. Their manufacture is now established and many of these winged ships should be on the other side before long. We must send them until the hardiest Fokker prefers staying close to the ground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIBERTY PLANES EN ROUTE | 2/23/1918 | See Source »

...occurrence, has been the occasion of the usual homilies on "undergraduate irresponsibility." Complaints of appointments unkept, of carelessness and unreliability, break out at the slightest suggestion. The difficulty of securing trustworthy men for positions of even minor responsibility is becoming proverbial and, indeed, the question is one of the hardiest of the hardy perennials that grow in the editorial column. And that is not all. In the phrase "college-graduate irresponsibility" we have an addition to our categories. Again and again business men remark upon the shiftlessness and carelessness of the college man, and with unanswerable arguments demonstrate his inferiority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PROFESSION OF BUSINESS | 6/7/1913 | See Source »

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