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Word: hards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard to embarrass as a wart hog, Ed Kelly had The Truth formally received and approved by the City Council. Then he departed for New York City to enjoy the World Series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Truth & Consequences | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Madrilenos, now facing their third winter of siege, rationed only 100 grams (about three and one-half ordinary hard rolls) of bread daily, feared that their enemies' gifts contained poison. Leftist chemists said they contained only "moral poison," called the bread bombings a "grotesque" gesture by aviators otherwise engaged in "assassinating women and children in defenseless towns." Grotesque or not, the bread shower was a pointed reminder that in Rightist Spain only a few nonessential items (tobacco, coffee, sugar) are scarce, while in overpopulated Leftist Spain the problem of foodstuffs is nearly as acute as that which faced Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bread & Bombs | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Nathaniel Dett lives quietly in Greens boro, N. C., works hard at his job, Director of Music at Bennett College, aims steadfastly "to put Negro music on a truly dignified and artistic basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composer Dett | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Kaufman & Hart's idea of a theatrical Remembrance of Things Past was bright: even the hard-boiled feel tender toward the theatre of their youth. But the adroit humorists of Once in a Lifetime and You Can't Take It With You hopelessly lost their way on such a sentimental journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...Only 22 miles long, it was the first railroad west of Schenectady. A pair of horses hitched in tandem pulled the original two-story, twelve-passenger day coach or "pleasure car." When addition of a 20-horsepower, wood-burning locomotive failed to pull Erie & Kalamazoo through ten years of hard times, it was sold to satisfy creditors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Regular Dividend | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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