Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Public libraries throughout the English speaking world were hard pressed to supply insult-snoopers with the poem. Excerpts...
...Brae Burn course, where the National Amateur Golf Championship was decided last week, lies in the shape of a green diminutive South America among the neat suburban back yards of West Newton, Mass. It is a hard course, harder than it was nine years ago for the National Open. In the qualifying rounds, no one broke 70 and 157 was good enough to get into the playoffs. George Voigt. playing in a green sweater and bright green stockings, slouched around the course last week with a cheerful, sarcastic expression and won the medal with...
...driving ball after ball through exactly the same trajectory far down the fairway to where two caddies waited to pick them up. After every perfect drive, Jones' face grew darker. Then he went out on the course and played six more holes with Phil Finlay, a shaky, hard-hitting Harvard boy; by this time he had won his match, 13 up and 12 to play...
General Electric and Westinghouse. who are working hard to hasten the commercialization of television, have a great fear−that the public may gull itself about this new entertainment. Last week Westinghouse's Vice President H. P. Davis warned: "Television, in so far as present accomplishments warrant, has been 'overplayed.' . . . Unfortunately, this has created the opportunity to foist on the public, much as in the early days of radio, a widespread sale of unsuitable apparatus, which those who purchase naturally expect will permit them to view television broadcasts, but which will only lead to disappointment and dissatisfaction...
...Fred J. Fisher, canny, was buying his stock with keen purpose. Revelation came last year when hard-bitten President Samuel M. Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive roared that he would let no "outsider" on to Baldwin Locomotive's board of directors. Fred J. Fisher (and Arthur W. Cutten) made little rebuttal. But at the next Baldwin Locomotive board meeting Fred J. Fisher was truculently made a director (also Mr. Cutten). He controlled sufficient stock (as did Mr. Cutten) to force his election as director...