Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Widower Costadot lived with Widow Becker for a year, but could never make up his mind to marry her. When he turned her out she was hard up for cash, so she arranged to sell to a M. Guichner a dressmaking business, in which she had dabbled, for 10,000 francs. She did not tell him it had failed for 400,000 francs. When he objected, she brewed tea. He survived...
...present fashion of going around this nation telling people how miserable they are, how rotten their country is, what little opportunity they have to better themselves, and therefore what their government ought to do and is going to do for them is ... a contemptible kind of demagoguery. . . . The plain hard truth is that these kids and our whole population now demand many times more of everything than [the older generation] did and are not willing to work as hard or suffer as much...
...betting machines at the opening of the nearby Santa Anita racetrack the day before-the first appearance of horseracing in Los Angeles County in 25 years. That was the beginning of the merchants' woes. For 50-odd days each winter for four succeeding winters, a half million of hard-earned Los Angeles dollars were wagered every day on horse races. The more the merchants tried to discourage betting (by newspaper campaigns and roadside billboards), the more entrenched it became as a major Los Angeles pastime...
...haired Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif.: the French hard-court tennis championship; in his first attempt; trouncing Czech Roderich Menzel in the final, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4; at Auteuil. Champion of the U. S., England, Australia and France, Budge at 23 is the first tennist in history to hold the "Big Four" titles at one time. Australia's Jack Crawford and England's Fred Perry each held three simultaneously, never could capture the fourth...
...little moments of tension which precede exams--moments in the dining halls; on the steps of New Lecture Hall, in the library,--there arise incidents of an amusing nature. One be-spectacled, stoop-shouldered lad, presumably of the sunima cum variety, was working hard at the long table in a House library recently. His nose was so close to his pen and book that it would have been impossible to insert a hairpin between them. Suddenly he startled the other crammers by rising and closing his book, then made these same laugh by audibly saying: "Ha! Now to begin...