Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then the cavalry wheeled past. Meanwhile Her Majesty chatted with the Soviet's most famed female diplomat, Mme. Alexandra M. Kollontai, who had come from her post as Ministress to Norway especially to attend Queen Thuraya. Their conversation was presumably "advanced," for Mme. Kollontai is an avowed, die-hard exponent of free love, while Her Majesty, a tireless educator, is easily the most emancipated woman in backward Afghanistan. Both these sagacious ladies paid small heed to President Kalinin, whom ignorant peasants affectionately call the "Little Father," as they once did the Tsar. The Queen and the Ministress know that...
Over mountains, down dales, through spreading forests and along hard rutty roads trudged hundreds of Rumanian peasants and then thousands, last week, to the old Transylvania walled town of Alba Julia. The peasants were responding to the pied piping of their great political champion, Dr. Juliu Maniu, not long since a peasant himself. They know, for he has told them, that the aristocratic cabinet at Bucharest derives its power from a parliament elected by corruption and police: bullying of the voters. Therefore the trudgers were converging upon Alba Julia to take a great oath and hurl a potent warning...
...hard-hitting Freshman baseball team will attempt, to add the Dartmouth first year nine to its already large list of victims this afternoon on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock...
...never failed to bend his back to the oar, parrying thrusts till the beads of sweat stood out on his bosom. But when earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, there need be little sympathy for this graduate of the school of hard Knox. The name of the Blackshirt will lead all the rest...
...Yale players were unable to ship their ponies to Boston, and so will use mounts borrowed from the University squad and from private owners. Last week the Blue team showed its strength by downing Princeton 5 to 4 in a hard-fought contest. Today's tilt will not decide the supremacy of Harvard or Yale, as a return encounter will be played at New Haven on June...