Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...destiny to prove to ourselves and to a suffering and disillusioned world that democracy can exist, can grow, and can flourish in this modern age. This is not a responsibility that can be shouldered merely by the adoption of many untried social reforms, but must be solved by hard work, by intelligent citizenship, by widespread public education, by constant vigilance, by rejection of old prejudices and outworn ideas and by a determination on the part of all the people to preserve their individual liberties so that their faith in democracy will be justified...
Beefy, intense-looking Harrington Gates, the only one of their ten children that a family in Saugus, Mass. could afford to educate well, was Dartmouth quarterback, a hard-hitting blocker trained at Dean Academy by Coach Daniel ("Dirty Dan") Sullivan. Last year Heavenly Gates played on the Dartmouth team all season. Last September, Gates, a senior, did not show up for practice. Football, he told his friends, was commercialized, godless; the players swore too much...
Last week he was trying hard to persuade Administrator Elmer F. Andrews to find that newspaper employes do not come under the rules of the Wages-&-Hours Act. Mr. Hanson based his arguments on 1) Section 13 (a) (2) of the Act, which exempts employes of any "retail or service establishment the greater part of whose selling or servicing is in intrastate commerce"; 2) Section 13 (a) (1) which exempts "professional" employes; 3) Section 2 (a) which would exempt industries not engaged in "commerce or in the production of goods for commerce...
...school of biff-plop-ratatat-tat cartooning was coming up fast. Today even spry old Foxy would be hard put to it to dodge the machine gun slugs and interplanetary rockets that whiz through the "comic" strips of the Thirties...
...turrets and lookout posts--form less than half the picture, for the title refers to the whole military organization of a peace-time democracy. The Government's solution of how to make a people militarized but not militaristic is well shown with pictures of the drab uniforms and hard work that go with "service militaire." The absence of petty regulations and delegation of responsibility to men of low rank is also shown, for these make army life compatible to the independent Frenchman. And to an essentially pacifist people the price of peace, however dear, is less than the costs...