Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lifted. Each issue of TIME, however, would have to be reviewed by the Customs for "objection able material" before being released. For a while newsstand copies were admitted, but subscriber copies met a postal censorship which developed into an outright, though unannounced, embargo. No matter how hard he tried, Correspondent Johnson was never able to see the Postmaster General...
...tried hard to explain its hapless way out: Freistadt had been picked by the prestigious National Research Council, the top U.S. organization in the development of scientific talent. In any case where study involved a matter of national security, the student was checked by the FBI. "The introduction of security procedures into nonsecret fields," said AEC Chairman David Lilienthal, "would establish a precedent of grave and far-reaching consequence to our scientific and educational system." Nonetheless, the fact remained: the AEC had dished out scholarships to train young men who, because of party membership, could never be eligible to work...
...decisively are very weak. Lawrence Academy, Tufts, and Middlesex had virtually no power with which to confront the only average Crimson squad. In the games which were really indications of the team's ability, such as the Dartmouth, Andover, and Exeter contests, the squad has shown itself to be hard fighting, but quite unsteady and inconsistent...
...usual during reading period, there has been an increase in the number of bookhogs who hide hard-to-get volumes on obscure shelves or build up private stacks in booths about the building. The library hopes to curb them by frequent checks of shelves and reading rooms, McNiff said...
Last week two very different groups of people did some concentrated worrying about conservation. Colorado rangers of the U. S. Forest Service fought a strong push by Western sheep ranchers to graze their flocks without restriction on public lands. The sheep-men were lobbying hard and effectively in Congress. All the same time in Washington, a group of soil experts, engineers, and other conservationists met in what they called the National Emergency Conference on Resources. No Congressmen bothered to show...