Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wages if he attains competence. The lawyer, the merchant, even the thief, is re- compensed for the lean years of his schooling by large profits in his prime. The clergyman, also, must undergo an intensive theological training before he receives a degree; afterward his education is still gradual and hard. Then, even if he has reached rare proficiency, his financial recognition is far less than that of an able dentist, is comparable to that of a high-grade mechanic...
Fifty-two thousand San Diegoists read the Union and Tribune every day. These two papers have been and will be Republican; will try to hoist Hoover to the Presidency. But Col. Copley is no haughty, hard-to-get-to hero of the frigid rich. He is a Mason, an Elk, a Knight of Pythias...
...Natural History, played scientific tricks with a cricket. They played the black bug in a vacuum and in a container of compressed air; for ten minutes they whirled him in a machine 1,200 times a minute. The insect did not die because air pockets j in his hard coat apparently protected him. Beside these insect researches, Mr. Loomis, vice president of Bonbright & Co., experiments in his private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., on the effect of "super-sounds," too shrill for human audibility. The "super-sounds" kill fish, paralyze mice, sterilize blood...
...Never Learn. The life of a lawyer is hard, particularly when he commits murder and is called upon to defend the victim inaccurately accused of the same homicide. This lawyer had murdered a lover of his own mistress. The whole matter was naturally distressing to his wife and little ones at home. Likewise to the audience, which was not amused...
...basketball team, known as the "Nonpareils", which is composed of members of the Business School, succeeded in defeating the M.A.C. five 28 to 25 in a hard fought practice game, which was played off in the Old Drill Hall at Amherst Saturday afternoon...