Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scripps-Howard newspapers; the Christian Science Monitor; Political Commentators Arthur Brisbane, William Hard, Frank R. Kent; Presidents Wilbur of Leland Stanford and Angell of Yale...
...most plausible cause of the disaster was the dam itself. "It is admitted," said Coroner Frank A. Nance of Los Angeles, "that the dam was not anchored to hard rock. One end was fastened to shale and the other to a conglomerate formation." Water had gradually seeped into this bed, softened it; and last week when the dam was filled to its maximum capacity, the foundations crumbled. Residents reported that they had noticed small leaks about the base of the dam ten days before the break...
...Horemans' run was formidable to the audience and it seemed likely now that a foreigner would beat the great Schaefer. The day before, Horemans had run off 345; Schaefer was already behind; to beat Horemans now would be hard, almost impossible...
Twelve Thousand. Everyone knows that the web of history is spun by a spider, that wars are lost with a horseshoe nail. Therefore it is not hard to be convinced by this gentle and determined fable wherein Bruno Frank explains why it was that a greedy German prince did not sell 12,000 of his peasants to fight for England in the War of the Revolution. Piderit, the prince's secretary, is a wise, gloomy and sardonic patriot who does not wish to see these helpless mercenaries, among them his two brothers, driven away to fight a foreign...
...survive the completely hopeless first act or arrive happily late. "Behold the Bridegroom" is a good evening's investment. The rough points are hard to stomach, but there may quite possibly be the fundamentals of a great play in the rest...