Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shops, streets and society, install decimal currency, teach taxi-drivers to talk so I can understand them, have the newspapers print something about America- especially business news-get some shows and nightclubs running that can compare with Broadway (and stop that annoying "club" system that makes it so hard to have a good time except in roughneck night places). When these things are attended to (!) I may go again. LESTER PENNIMAN...
...Fish, owner; Mrs. Fish; their two sons, and Captain A. Phillip Larsen. Mr. Fish was bringing his new yacht, the Restless, up from its builders, American Car and Foundry Co. at Wilmington, Del. From the Brooklyn shore a U. S. patrol boat slid out in pursuit of the Restless. Hard by the Statue of Liberty, the U. S. craft fired twice on the Fish boat. Capt. Larsen hove to. From the patrol boat to the Restless stepped a U. S. agent (No. 979). He had a gun. Others on the U. S. boat exhibited firearms. "Why the hell didn...
...visitors are more or less an unknown quantity, but St. John's baseball team are traditionally well-coached, hard-hitting aggregations, from which much trouble may be expected. Lest year's Freshman outfit succeeded in overhauling an early disadvantage to conquer the schoolboys by a 9 to 3 count...
...lions aren't so hard to picture," interposed Mr. Johnson. "They are muscle-pound and while fast in a sprint, tire quickly. After a heavy meal, also, they are slow and easy to stalk...
...problem of proper housing for the faculty is increasingly a hard one, and it is no doubt undesirable that any very large percentage of this body should have to find lodging in apartments where entertaining and informal meeting with students can be accomplished only with difficulty. Quite recently the most pressing phase of the situation, that of proper housing for young instructors has been met by the establishment of the Harvard Housing Trust, which though owned and controlled outside of the University, works in informal cooperation with it. The two groups of houses so far built by this organization, namely...