Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard and fast vacation rule works especially harshly on those who live at a considerable distance from Cambridge. Inasmuch as traveling time is allowed only at the beginning of holidays, the necessity of returning from a distance to attend one class is doubly irksome. A notoriously unfortunate case this year is of one man who must return three days early from California in order to attend one Friday class...
...Hard Struggle Tonight...
...York's commercial aristocrats, the great traders, founders of more than one great American house; New York and New England's ship builders, among them the famous Donald McKay; the Yankee skippers and the hard-bitten tars who hauled their canvass, stood their watch--all these are deftly, subtly portrayed...
...McClinchey knows the Ojibways and likes them, lives part of every year on the island which is her novel's scene. Born in Sault Ste. Marie (the "Soo") she became a school teacher there, now teaches in the English Department of Central State Teachers College (summer session). Reserved, hard to get acquainted with, Author McClinchey feels natural in the woods, is an expert canoeist, and can handle a launch in a heavy sea. Joe Pete, her first novel, is the Christmas choice of the Book League of America...
...found Nelson 25 miles east of Cleveland near Chagrin Falls, where the Alleghenies give their last, low roll towards the Great Plains. He had jumped just before crashing. The jump apparently stunned him. The half-open folds of his parachute quilted him too thinly. Unconscious, he froze to death, hard by the busy Cleveland to Pittsburgh motor road, the tenth mail flyer to die on the New York-Cleveland route...