Word: hardings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because its soft mouth is hard to hook and harder to keep hooked, the giant broadbill swordfish, one of the seas' sportiest inhabitants, is the most difficult fish to take on rod & reel. Although more than 5,000,000 pounds of swordfish are harpooned by commercial fishermen off the Atlantic Coast every year, no more than a baker's dozen are caught by Atlantic anglers...
...much like Algiers as possible, let the camera eye ogle Lamarr's uncanny physical charms, duplicated Producer Wanger's feat of making the Lamarr torpidity seem exotic. Somewhat bowled over himself, Producer Zimbalist observed: "Hedy is just a nice girl, not at all vain, and a hard worker. She has a natural allure. ... If anything, we've attempted to tone down the sex appeal she exudes. . . . All through the picture she is covered from head...
...they soon found Federal control was complex and hard to understand. It also brought into the milkshed a formularized way of figuring milk prices: the "blended price." Milk was classified by the use to which it was put-from $2.25 per cwt. for Class I (bottled milk) down to 94? for Class IV-B (American Cheddar cheese), average estimated at $1.65 per cwt. To farmers who knew one gallon of milk cost about as much as another, who distrusted the reports of milk utilization turned in by dealers (although checked by the Department of Agriculture), this seemed an injustice. Many...
Three years ago a new character appeared in the milkshed. Thin-faced, spectacled Archie Wright, onetime representative of the hard-boiled National Maritime Union of the C. I. O., bought a dairy farm near Ogdensburg, N. Y. Between seeing that his cows were milked, he set out to help form the Dairy Farmers' Union. Last year he became its president...
...Lambs horse-played and horselaughed at delicacy and romance, ate prodigiously, fell asleep and snored, shouted their arrogant opinions, cursed loud and long. Yet they had immense love of life, good humor, adroitly managed people and situations. Melbourne House was a social centre of London. It was also animal, hard, rapacious and plainspoken...