Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week will be a hard one for the 1938 Varsity football team. Both Mondays so far have been bluish, but today will be even more so. Beaten by a Brown team which took them by surprise, battered and bruised after a magnificent stand against the three-deep powerhouse of Cornell, Captain Green and his men saw the powers of fortune let them down in their third attempt Saturday...
Great fun had Baltimore wits last week as. after three weeks of rain, a crew of WPA workers resumed digging and scraping a desolate spot in Herring Run Park, hard by the city incinerator. News had got round that this project, a model yacht basin costing $40,000, of which the city was putting up $10,000, also included a polo field, WPA's first concession to the most luxurious U. S. sport...
...defense sprang hard-boiled Novelist James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Serenade). Describing himself as one "known all over Baltimore as Sourpuss." Mr. Cain wrote to the Sim: "Polo is played by many different kinds of people now. ... [It is] within the means of most, even those of us who are on relief, as I have the honor...
...that the great hurricane of Europe seems to have blown itself out, there remains one problem that is staring all the countries in the face, one which they cannot avoid no matter how hard they try to look the other way. This is the explosive doctrine of self-determination for racial minorities. It is the doctrine which Hitler has been applying to such advantage for the territorial expansion of Germany, but also the principle which, if strictly applied throughout Europe, would mean the uprising of some thirty million persons who would break up the boundaries of Europe and give back...
...last year's Yardling backfield, Gardella showed Saturday against Cornell that he was the top-ranking Crimson defensive back. He has been out of three days practice this week with a cold but returned yesterday to try out his new wing position. A shifty, hard-driver runner, he is slated to give Torby Macdonald more competition than the "Flash" has encountered...