Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leaning forward in a carved armchair at the Palazzo Chigi, Signor Benito Musso- lini sat with his hard chin cupped between contented palms, last week, watching newsreel flashes of Cardinals and Monsignors marching to the ballot box (TIME, April 1), attended by blaring brass bands and wildly cheering throngs. Never before have Princes of the Church shepherded their clergy and people to vote in a Parliamentary Election of the present Italian Kingdom. Always before the priesthood has abstained, urging their flocks to do likewise, in protest against the Government's suppression of the Pope's temporal power in 1870. Recently...
...bellowed, and water pssssssssed-from 3 a. m. to 9 p. m. Up and down, up and down until the fire was out, tirelessly paced a little man very stout and round for his small stature, with the carefully shaven and glistening head of a Prussian, and with two hard, compelling eyes. Subordinates wept, but not STIMMING. Far away in the Manhattan office of the North German Lloyd, the blow pierced a deep vein of German sentiment; and of the two principal officials one sobbed as only a man can, while the other sat for a time stunned with grief...
...Swaim '31 stroked the winning crew to a victory over the shell stroked by P. H. Watts '31, which in turn left the crew with R. I. McKesson '31 setting the beat behind in a hard fought race over the winding course...
...Nawn '32, in winning his way through two hard matches to the 135-pound title, made two rallies that pulled the bouts out of the fire just in time. His second one, when he was pitted against J. W. Fellows '30, was especially notable...
...prize bout of the evening was in the unlimited class, where K. D. Robinson '30 defeated Elmer Meyer 1G. S. There was no stalling, they laced into each other with a flock of hard blows; the mix-up looked like a battle of siege guns. Meyer took the offense, and was far, ahead at the first bell; he started off the second round with a rush, but tired quickly, and was an easy target for Robinson's pounding...