Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...cent nickel and 81.29 per cent iron. This is an unusually high proportion of nickel. It is not surprising, therefore, that the meteor is extremely hard and especially tough. Investigation with a file led to the estimate that this nickel-iron alloy compares in hardness with the hardest steel used on railroads. An idea of the toughness may be obtained from the fact that it took fully two hours of sawing and more than a dozen hacksaw blades to saw off a piece with a surface of only two inches...
...dealings with the Senate were the most difficult, the least successful. It took, he realized, a politician to get along with politicians and there his predecessor had had a distinct advantage over him. The men who campaigned the hardest for him?Iowa's Brookhart, Idaho's Borah?were now his chief critics. The apparent uncertainty of his stand on tariff rates had become a standing Democratic joke, in spite of his careful explanation that it was not his duty to legislate on such matters. Some of his friends were urging him to exhibit a new and bold leadership, to carry...
Coal Picks Up. In almost optimistic vein it is admitted that the British coal trade, hardest hit by the British General Strike and Coal Strike of 1926, and very nearly prostrate for years afterward, is now at last "convalescent...
...enable the University to give professors competent assistants like those provided for investigators in other fields. It also suggested that funds might be secured for the investigation of particular subjects that happened to be of timely interest. In conclusion, it pointed out that the first step is usually the hardest. The endowment of economic research at Harvard or any other university is a thing that can be finally and conclusively justified only by its results, while such results, in turn, are impossible without an endowment the necessity of which is not generally recognized. With hope, therefore, but without confident expectation...
...secret of the Attorney General's youth, of his ample energy, is his vigorous outdoor life. He is the Cabinet's best golfer. It is a bad day for him when he does not shoot an 85 at the Burning Tree Club, Washington's hardest course. He goes duck hunting along the Potomac in the fall, spends his summers at White Bear Lake, Minn., where he fishes, sails, shoots. His hobbies: amateur cinematography, driving his Packard...