Word: harder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best drivers and fastest cars met last week in the first Grand Prix of the United States. The man to beat was a broad-faced Aussie named Jack Brabham, 33. A steady man with a mechanic's instinct for pushing his low-slung Cooper-Climax no harder than metal and rubber can stand, Brabham rose out of the ranks this year (TIME, Aug. 10) to take the lead in the world driving championship...
...hospitals; then (in 1956) he discovered small colleges. They seemed to him especially deserving: "At a big university, there's no development of natural resources through companionship. I think students in the small college understand life more. Life at a small college broadens them, and they study harder...
Though relatively few earthlings are aware of it, they are embedded in a huge, disk-shaped spiral galaxy. Earth's astronomers have a hard time seeing much else; every star visible in the sky is part of it.* They have an even harder time seeing into its heart (located roughly in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius) because it is obscured by the close-packed stars and cosmic dust that comprise the Milky...
...developed at the beginning of this year however, when the White House declared that data from the Hardtack II series of four underground nuclear explosions the previous October invalidated the findings of the Geneva experts. The main result showed that primary waves were weaker than expected and therefore were harder to distinguish from smaller quakes. The Russians steadily refused to study this data until last week, claiming it was merely an attempt by the U.S. to sabotage the conference. Certainly the way and manner in which this information was released by the U.S. appeared to be deliberately misleading...
...foreign students from 53 countries, most of them technology-starved lands, the Palace of Science is a cathedral of know-how. Few worship harder than 400 Chinese students, the biggest foreign group. They keep to themselves, deplore pleasure of any kind. One Chinese student made the mistake of skipping lunches and saving enough money for a radio. When his comrades got the word, he was severely reprimanded, told that all savings should go to "national welfare." He promptly sold his little radio and sent the money to Peking...