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Word: hards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Previously undefeated in collegiate competition, the varsity was hard pressed throughout the contest and Hugh Foster's three to two loss in the number one spot proved to crucial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Men Bow To Williams, 6-3; '53 Triumph, 5-4 | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

...Northeastern broad jumping and high jumping star named Mazzocca will give strong BU and Harvard entries a hard time in these events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Will Meet BU, Northeastern Today | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

Paul Bowles' first attempt at a novel suffers from one salient fault--the author tries too hard. Attempting to depict man's flight into moral chaos and nihilism, Mr. Bowles utilizes a plot too weird to convince and a technique too realistic to carry the reader to the symbolic level...

Author: By Robert J. Blinken, | Title: Weird Ones in the Desert | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

Last night's game was excellently played by both sides all the way. Brown played as a fast, hard-shooting team, even without the help of its star Canadian center Johnny Casey, who landed in the infirmary at 5 p.m. this afternoon with a bad case of grippe. For the Crimson's part, the forwards passed and skated beautifully, and John Chase played a superb goalie's game, in spite of the seven goals he couldn't stop...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Basketball Team Wins; Sextet Bows to Brown | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

Throughout the show it's always hard to remember there's anyone onstage except the leading lady. She charms you in the pink hoop skirts and ruffled lace of the lady in court; she practically seduces you in the bodkin and tights of the forester; and, then, in the chaste white of her wedding gowns, she melts you. Elizabeth Bergner, in the movie, was flighty enough for the forest scenes; but Hepburn was even more light-footed and still human too. Bergner was a haughty Rosalind; Hepburn just seemed to be in love...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

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