Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...completely cured of the mastoiditis that attacked him four months ago, looking fitter than I have ever seen him in all the years I have known him, declaring that he "felt, and was, better" than he had been in ten years. He flexed his arm, and his biceps were hard as the heel of his shoe. (He works with dumbbells every morning.) I think he'd love a chance to take someone on and show how much of the boxing cunning he has kept from the days when he held the championship of City College...
...BEAZELL Forest Hills, N. Y. P.S. Mr. Baruch was 69 on Saturday [Aug. 19]. >Great is TIME'S delight to learn that Bernard Mannes Baruch, hard-muscled, young-hearted, feels and looks like a Champion again...
...from the wrath of Great Britain & France, B. Mussolini was in just about the world's hottest spot. One martial move by him, he well knew, and Italy would suffer the full fury of the French Army and two navies. She would probably lose Ethiopia, have to fight hard to hold Libya and not starve. And the Turks would make life unbearable by driving behind the Greeks at Albania...
...Baltimore, Emil ("Feets") Cella, 35, who likes to eat hard crabs with the shells on, claimed a world's beer-drinking record: one-half gallon in 16 seconds, thereby besting his previous (1935) record of 17 2/10 seconds...
Author Boyle's little camel was puppyish, bumptious and a liar. Life had made his hard-working old mother cynical since the Arab driver jerked the ring in her tender mouth whenever she slacked up. She really wanted to eat green grass and drink cool water but, she told the youngest camel, "that's just one of the things that can never possibly be. ... Because your father never took out any life insurance." "What about the caravan of white camels with solid gold hoofs that goes right around the earth?" her son objected. "Hooey," said his hard-Boyled...