Word: hardiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more about them, but I do know about bamboo growing in America and thought you might be interested to know that I am growing three kinds here and one of them is over 30 ft. high. They are, Bambusa aurca, yellow canes; Bambusa argenteostriata grows 30 ft.; Bambusa Metake, hardiest bamboo...
...opposition to Madison Square Garden Corp. which Rickard founded. It caused twelve deaths from excitement. Adolf Hitler congratulated the winner. What made the fight remarkable, however, was none of these facts. It was remarkable because in it Schmeling demolished not merely a capable & well-trained opponent but the hardiest of all those resilient myths which flourish so prodigiously on the sports pages of U. S. newspapers, the myth that Joe Louis was unbeatable...
...Hardiest of the Filbertian legends concerns his middle name. This originated' with the late Judge Elbert Gary, who once declared that after knowing Mr. Filbert 35 years he was still unable to discover what the "J" stood for. The story was perpetuated in dozens of press, biographies of Steelman Filbert. As anyone could discover by asking Mrs. Filbert, the "J'' stands for James...
...from there. The Indian Government refused to let him fly over Nepal, forbade him to make any attempt on the mountain at all, kept him under surveillance. Maurice Wilson held his peace, undertook a severe training regime. He believed that previous Everest expeditions had been overmanned, that the hardiest climbers had ruined their chances by holding back to aid faltering comrades. He believed that the fastest traveling was alone...
...station threw flowers at a group of German climbers leaving to attempt the Mountain of Horror. The party was led by Willi Merkl, who had failed to reach the top two years before when his porters, mountain-sick and frightened, balked. This year pains were taken to find the hardiest and pluckiest hillmen obtainable. Last week came news of disaster...