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Word: hards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Dick Kleberg was nominated for the Roosevelt Purge list this year he did not make it, partly because in the 14th District it would be hard to purge a King-Kleberg, partly be cause in Washington Rancher Kleberg has not sought to assert his birthright of leadership. Consensus: a conscientious, well-intentioned Congressman less unusual and less frigid than he looks, more independent than some of his colleagues because he is less ambitious and his interests are more special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...WPAsters wielding picks & shovels on a ditch-digging project in New York City's Bronx, 38 walked off the job one day last week and refused to labor more. Their reason: working with either pick or shovel was hard enough, but to ask any man to use these tools interchangeably (i.e., without a chance to rest while another worker plied the other tool) was "inhuman." Result: one man discharged, one suspended, interchangeable picking & shoveling resumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Specialists | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...thoroughly-schooled Harbus men find positions in big or little industries? Lombard admitted that it was hard to draw the line but estimated a 50-50 division. Students going into big business probably won't stay there, either finding now affiliations or starting out for themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business School's Enrollment Jumps To Equal Highest Mark Yet Recorded | 10/27/1938 | See Source »

...thing is certain--having a girl up to a game involves a large expenditure of a student's hard-earned allowance, and frequently creates apparently insoluble problems of budget-balancing after the dream girl has gone home again. But one undergraduate, foreseeing late-October bankruptcy, has utilized a plan of financing the weekend which combines the blind devotion of the days of chivalry with the materialism of this streamlined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tbe Crime | 10/27/1938 | See Source »

...Among critics it was a popular award. Long regarded as one of the most profound followers of Cézanne, 60-year-old Karl Hofer was a venerated teacher at the Berlin Academy until the Nazis ousted him. Grim, uneasy and intense as his great French master, he works hard by turns in Switzerland and in a sleazy Berlin studio. Last summer he told one of his friends he thought he was "at last beginning to do something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 36th International | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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