Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like David trying to beat Goliath without a sling and stone. The varsity lacrosse team had plenty of spirit in its game with Williams yesterday; it played hard enough to make the final score close, but something was missing. Williams...
...Courts, there have been bitter struggles between the doctors of the prosecution and the doctors of the defense. These battles have tended to center on the very popular "insanity plea." There is no legal definition of insanity, and since each case is different, the psychiatrists cannot apply any hard and fast rules. The experts can only give their usually conflicting opinions, and the Court must come to final decision...
Though Fox was still dickering with the Government, it was getting ready for the split-up itself. Fox's Al Lichtman, a hard-knuckled distribution expert, had drafted a plan to get Fox a bigger slice of the box-office receipts...
...with a sharp eye for selling. As vice president of Chicago's Quarrie Corp., he helped sell a million copies of the Book of Knowledge. At Grosset, it was he who started Bantam Books. O'Connor thinks that the potential market for Wonder Books (which have hard, washable-plastic covers) is 100 million copies. To cash in on it, he expects to increase the list of 16 titles (including Mother Goose, Peter Rabbit and The Three Little Kittens) by adding new books every month...
...Robert Ryan in a hard-slugging account of the fall of an overaged pug (TIME, April...