Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...received one Leonard H. Huff, hard bitten hillbilly, aged 92, who said: "I have been waiting four years to get a chance to vote for you." Candidate Smith replied: "By gosh, I hope you get the chance...
Heredity, Environment. That Alfred Emanuel Smith rose from utter poverty and the shelter of a saloon is another current myth. His father, for whom he was named, was a New York trucker of whom little is known except that he worked hard and died young, when his son was 13. The mother, whose maiden name was Mulvehill and who also was born in New York, had seen to it that the boy went to a parochial school. At the father's death, he left school, having reached the eighth grade. Beside his mother he had a sister, two years...
...marathon who have no intention of finishing. They start because they can run a little and feel that they might surprise themselves this time; anyway, they can say they started and if they feel tired they can drop out. Before the pack had gone far over the smooth hard road winding toward Boston several had sat down to feel their feet and before the race was half over the pack was cut in half. And still Ray stepped out on his toes, grinning...
...consciously single out his richer patrons for special attention. Nonetheless it was the epicures who remembered him, and the princes and the millionaires. Other people were a little frightened by M. Ritz, even intimidated by his martial cognomen or his last name that sounded sharp and hard...
With victories over the Technology Beavers and Cambridge Latin to its credit, the Second University baseball team will meet the Tufts Freshman nine this afternoon in its third encounter of the season. The Tufts first year aggregation which defeated Thayer Academy on Thursday, is reputed to be a hard-hitting outfit and is expected to put the picthing staff of the Crimson Seconds to a severe test...