Word: hardiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that hardy, hairy crew who prowl for Soviet glory north of Russia's long Arctic coast line, hardiest and hairiest is jungle-bearded Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, chief editor of the Soviet Encyclopedia, professor of hydrology, chemistry and Arctic science. Two years ago the middle-aged professor led the icebreaker Sibirya-kov to a great Soviet feat: first navigation of the "northeast passage" from Archangel to Vladivostok in one year. Last August he tried it again with the icebreaker Chelyuskin, setting out this time from Murmansk, through the empty wastes of the Barents and Kara Seas. In September...
Physically potent, the Andorran Government (composed exclusively of hardy mountaineers) led young men of Andorra's best and hardiest families against the soft Spanish strikers, easily broke the strike, kicked its leaders across Andorra's frontier into Spain...
Nothing is less susceptible to scrutiny than reputation. Put to the test, the savoir faire, savoir dire of the hardiest drollo in our midst would be hard put to it to approach this standard of imperfection. We can't attempt to be Casanovas without certain detection. And once let the folk of the watering-places get wind of our being neither more nor less than pretty average fellows whose urges are no more picaresque than the norm, we sink in the eyes of the world...
...that are obscure but presumably quite valid, the elaborate forced ventilating system installed in Widener cannot be put to use. Accordingly at present the method employed in the main Reading Room is to open a window wide (for a few minutes at long intervals), thus driving all but the hardiest readers to distant corners, while making no appreciable impression on the temperature of the rest of the room. That the latter is excessive can hardly be denied; ask any student who has experienced the lethargic effects of an hour's reading and has had to endure the ever-present smell...