Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eighteen hundred feet up the Blue Ridge, hard by Snicker's Gap, where Turner Ashby's grey cavalry thundered through to join Jackson in the Valley, stands a fine brick building faced with ten cinctured columns. About are smaller structures, a laboratory, stable, power plant. Once it was an important U. S. weather observatory; but for 15 years it has stood empty in the mountain wind...
Followed threats of a great hard-coal strike, and Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania, rushed to the breach...
...have worked hard for more than five years and I am tired. I can still carry the burden another two years, but no longer. I feel that there should be a younger government and younger leaders, and I shall be happy to turn my responsibilities over to them...
Musical Boston has been feeling itself hard put to preserve its reputation. A symphony orchestra is the greatest of luxuries. Its existence depends always on the beneficence of a patron or a group of patrons. Again, last week, the Boston Symphony felt sorely its annual deficit complaint, and printed in the program books a plea for funds. The Boston Symphony's prospective deficit this year is $134,000 as against $87,000 last year...
...similarity between this plot and hard-boiled Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is great but not suspicious. Ida A. R. Wylie, author of Children of Storm, The Mad Busman, has literary stature, would never stoop to pilfer...