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Word: hards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dear Elmer had had a hard row to hoe. When he took the job he was told to wait & see how far industry would voluntarily comply with Wage-Hour regulations. That method worked astoundingly well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Elmer Out | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...private life first with the popular press and then . . . with freedom of speech and then, almost, with freedom. He began to loathe democracy, . . . His self-confidence thickened into arrogance and his convictions hardened into granite. . . . His mind had been sharpened by fame and tragedy until it had become as hard as metal and as narrow as a chisel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Hounds in Cry | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Arthur Sampaon of the Herald: "Both teams are inexperienced, and it's hard to make any prediction at all. I'd call it a toss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Game Predictions by Local Sports Experts | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

...long pass by Cliff Helman to Hal Tine made it 19 points for the Lamarmen. At this point, the boys from Hanover launched a spectacular passing attack that accounted for two touchdowns in short order and turned what had seemed for a time like a rout into a hard-fought contest that wasn't decided until the final...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: CRIMSON JAYVEES WIN CLOSE CONTEST, 19-13 | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

...perfectly. The result is high adventure worthy of Dumas combined with the trip-hammer pace of a first-rate detective story. Maureen O'Hara, Laughton's much-heralded colleen, is not, however, the sensation that one might expect. While she is admirable as a wide-eyed adventuress, it is hard to imagine her as a big-time all-around actress,--but then, you never can tell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

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