Word: hardiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood, brooding about its newfangled competitor, television, likes to think of it as a cloud that is still no bigger than a man's hand. Last week the TV cloud was casting a sizable shadow on one of the U.S. screen's hardiest perennials: the newsreel...
...swung it against a steel plate. When the egg was free to move (like a passenger with no safety belt) a very slight shock broke the shell. When held tightly, the egg survived harder shocks. When cushioned with rubber in front, it lasted even better. The hardiest eggs were snuggled against a cushioned block that slipped a little when the swing hit the steel, allowing the egg to come to a slow stop. It took a powerful shock to crack such a coddled...
Dupré spun and thundered six preludes and fugues of Bach-a heavy dose even for the hardiest. But before his program was over, small groups had tiptoed up to the chancel to watch his hands fly over the four manuals (keyboards), and his patent-leather pumps dance over the pedals. Said one watcher: "The guy should have been a ballet dancer...
Everything is reduced except "Harvey Harvard," a monstrous sized albino rabbit whose extraordinary dimensions frighten all but the hardiest "pupil" who might feel inclined toward biological experiments and reflex testing...
...Highway (1,600 miles from Dawson Creek, B.C. to Fairbanks), through some of the world's most majestic mountains and some of the continent's most unpeopled wilderness, jogged 20 families a day. Their earthly goods were strapped to their cars. They were the new pioneers, the hardiest (or, some old Alaska hands said, the most foolhardy) of the thousands of Americans who constantly deluge Alaskan clubs, hotels and chambers of commerce with requests for data about the Territory. Most of them were looking for a home...