Word: harder
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...civil occupation of other kinds are the centre of the line. Theirs is the hard job. They plug along at dull work and if they make good, they receive no glory. But they receive what is infinitely more worthwhile, namely the inward satisfaction of having done the harder job; of having done it well without the inspiration or rewards...
...this point the speaker brought his words home by declaring that unless those who stay here hold themselves just as true on a fixed course, they will become "mere onlookers, helpless to aid in the struggle. In some ways," he went on, "it is harder for us at home than for those who are fighting, for they have a concrete task before them, while we apparently have only a stale, dull, unimportant routine ahead...
...thorough preparation. The average South American, then, graduates when he is 17, an age when most people in the States enter college. Then if he intends to take up some profession, he enters the superior grade. This corresponds to your professional schools. Just as our pupils must work harder in college, so your pupils work much harder in the professional schools. The course in our medical school takes seven years; in our law school, five. All one has to do is to attend classes in the morning...
...them the principles of obedience and discipline and the rudiments of modern military science. But the regular army man, no matter how limited his practice may have been in that kind of work, is in the way to master it quickly. With the reserve officers the task will be harder, but they will all have had some sort of training before they begin to train others. There will be no question of getting the number of men required. Every intelligent citizen knows that universal obligation to military service has always been the rule in this country, as it must...
...question is not whether everyone knows everyone else in the University. The question is whether the standards of intimacy are more strict or harder to overleap than at another place. It would be difficult to find any spot east of No Man's Land where no thought is paid to a man' s creed, his intelligence, or his breeding. If such a place were found it is a question whether we should care to go there. A man who has no standards of taste or judgement may well lack standards of anything else...