Word: hardiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weather has affected more than river towns and cornfields. In Chicago, where temperatures were 5° below normal last month and rainfall 2 in. above, only the hardiest take to Lake Michigan's chilly waters. Des Moines' Ashworth swimming pool has had 34,000 fewer customers so far this year than last. Peoria's "Heart of Illinois Fair" was almost washed out of the heartland last week; dripping dairy princesses sloshed to the judging under plaid umbrellas. And in Quincy, Ill. Librarian Caroline Sexauer reported that the combination of unemployment and rainy weekends has made more people...
Macy's & Gimbels. The strike could not have been more critically timed. Heaped on the million people who normally crowd in daily on New York City's crammed acres were thousands of hot-eyed Christmas shoppers. The press and pandemonium were too much for many of the hardiest; on the second day, thousands of workers and shoppers stayed away. Retailers moaned over million-dollar-a-day losses in sales. Newspapers lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in pages of retail advertising. Macy's talked to Gimbels. Macy's President Jack Straus and Gimbels' President Bernard...
Among the perennials, Benedict Fitzgerald '08 is probably the hardiest. Most people have lost count of his unsuccessful runs for office. He is running for City Council, but his only chance for victory is through a sympathy vote or a case of mistaken identity, in which voters thought he was the Mayor's crony, James Fitzgerald. On the CCA side, there are three former perennials parading behind the standard of respectability. Gaetan Aiello and Robert Horan, School Committee candidates, are at least one-time losers, and Witold Pladziewicz, owner of an East Cambridge meat market and a City Council candidate...
Strong & Harsh. In the rubble Hitler left, only the hardiest roots of modern art managed to survive. Of the younger generation, the strongest figures combine something of the expressive color of Nolde with the abstract structure handed down by Kandinsky. A leading example is the whiplike abstraction and sweeping, calligraphic symbol of Hans Hartung (TIME, April 1), a German who fought against the Nazis in the French Foreign Legion and is now a French citizen...
After many cycles of this, they opened the jars. The dry soil inside was still alive with bacteria which had triumphantly survived "Martian" dryness and cold. The hardiest strains could reproduce during warm spells when the moisture content of their soil was only two-fifths of 1%. When the moisture rose above 1%, as it may during the Martian spring when the icecap melts or evaporates, the bacteria throve...