Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began talking about a new post office, wondered why they had not demanded one. "What have we got?" he asked, "we have got a little over a year left," went on to explain that the next Administration might not provide a post office, and that if Warm Springers demanded hard enough, he might take Jim Farley by the neck "and squeeze a new post office...
...August day in 1914, Woodrow Wilson appointed to the Court his Attorney General, hotheaded, hard-headed Mr. McReynolds of Tennessee. Legend has it that Woodrow Wilson regretted no appointment more than that one. And legend also gave Mr. Justice McReynolds a bad name: a man intolerably rude, antiSemitic, savagely sarcastic, incredibly reactionary, Puritanical, prejudiced...
Yale's inspirational leader, Bill Stack, was one of the great pivot men of the year, but Frick of penn pushed him hard for top honors. Stack lifted the Eli linemen to great heights on many occasions and saved them from open collapse in other games...
...always hard to decide to what extent an influential artistic figure is a product of the period in which he lives and, on the other hand, to what extent he has instigated and furthered the tendencies of his time. Strawinsky, however, has certainly been the leader in developing the aesthetic attitude which has prevailed among musicians in the last two decades. By various methods--from vague and theoretical presentation of his views as in the Charles Eliot Norton lectures, to his more specific writings and the practical application of his ideas in his compositions themselves--he has encouraged the concept...
This victory gave Captain Jack Calhoun's eleven a successful season of only two defeats in a long and hard schedule...