Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every gum-chewer knows, married the Cinderella of the Canadian woods, entered last week the Harvard Medical School. He took up residence with his wife (nee Lena Wilson) in Brookline, Mass. Said she: "This home of ours is really a student home. My husband has to study hard, you know. . . . His career is ahead of him and he doesn't want to be interrupted by too much gaiety...
...late great, hard Frank Andrew Munsey (1854-1925), amalgamator of newspapers, had a strict rule in all his editorial offices that there should be NO SMOKING. This caused many reporters to sneak out of sight...
...scrimmage itself revealed better than at any preceding session the latent power of the first team's running and passing attack. The scrubs were powerless to stop the hard running first team backs, and the latter had rolled up a 73 to 0 score before the approaching evening forced Coach Horween to call a halt in the session...
...prominent New York financier is purported to have advised the son of one of his partners, who sought advice on college electives, to choose first subjects which were hard and to choose second subjects which were interesting. Compare this attitude with that of the great mass of college student. Through their spokesmen, the undergraduate editors, they are constantly demanding that education be made easier and more attractive. Their most earnest quest is for a process of such ingenuity and perfection that it will educate them in spite of themselves. The demands of the undergraduate critic may uncover certain remediable defects...
...Representatives, has as one of his official privileges the use of a fine automobile furnished by the U. S. government. Last week, he quipped: "I want a Republican Congress because I don't want Jack Garner riding about in my automobile." Jack Garner is John Nance Garner, hale, hard-working and humorous Representative from Texas, who would undoubtedly be the Democrats' choice forSpeaker. He is a good friend of Speaker Longworth, as is every one else of any importance in the House...