Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hopper's Summer Evening, a young couple talking in the harsh light of a cottage porch, is inescapably romantic, but Hopper was hurt by one critic's suggestion that it would do for an illustration in "any woman's magazine." Hopper had the painting in the back of his head "for 20 years, and I never thought of putting the figures in until I actually started it last summer. Why, any art director would tear the picture apart. The figures were not what interested me; it was the light streaming down, and the night all around...
...pulled an A in Elizabethan literature, but he wasn't much of a student. One thing he did enjoy was rowing. His crew was good enough to row at Poughkeepsie; but his career as an oarsman ended abruptly when he hurt his spine...
Losing only one out of 12 games, the Crimson representatives barely out-guessed a favored Columbia aggregation in a close tournament which was not decided until the final afternoon matches of a three day contest. Eli chances were hurt by defaults due to an undermanned team team and the often flashy New Yorkers were relegated to second place by the steady play of the Crimson...
...greatest selling obstacle has been the railroads' reluctance to hurt their best customers-the coal companies (35% of all freight tonnage is coal). The Santa Fe, with more diesel units than any other road (542), is well out of the coal country. (The Central has 334 diesel units.) Though diesels still comprise only 10% of all locomotives, they have already begun to invade coal roads like the Pennsylvania, which bought more diesels than any other road this year...
...Santa Ana to organize a "popular protest," and hoped to get the National Assembly to hold up the agreement. Halfway down the Avenida Central, police met them with tear gas and sabers. For a moment the students gave as good as they got. Then they fell back. Score: 30 hurt (including 17 policemen...