Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good-go somewhere else.' " His men get up at 6 a.m. to start the day in the saddle; they also study the anatomy of the horse, the foreign riding styles (especially Italian, French and German), keep fit with fencing, basketball and swimming. But no matter how hard they try, the pupils never excel the teacher...
...Washington, D.C., a tube of brand-name shaving cream sells for 23? v. the Baltimore "fair-trade" price of 39?. A diabetic pays $1.65 for insulin that costs $2.47 in Baltimore. And the fair-traders are working hard to wipe out even these few remaining islands of price competition...
Into a Hansom. Despite the hard, rough work, the market men like it. In the old days they did well enough to don Prince Albert coats after work and ride home in hansom cabs. They still pay their workers well. Example: fillet men (who can reduce a fish to pure meat with three or four deft swipes of a knife) get up to $125 a week...
...deal). Beginning in 1952, Gulbenkian will be able to buy the extra oil at a price halfway between cost and market price. When he sells, the proceeds will be protected against devaluation of the British pound; the American companies agreed to convert Gulbenkian's take into hard dollars...
Crisp was the word to describe Harvard's blocking and tackling. The Crimson hit so hard that Brown linemen went down, and stayed down. Blockers didn't stop confusedly when they missed assigned blocks, but went on to flatten the nearest man in a white shirt...