Word: harder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know how this will result. The Harvard Bulletin is satisfied, however, that thus far--halfway through the experiment--there are no sins of languor about the Yard, of sudden golden harvests for the tutoring schools, or increase in outside activities or absences. It thinks that everybody is "harder at work than when classes are in operation," that the Library is more used, and that the experiment promises to be a success when the marks come through on the examined results. The project interests us exceedingly and we hope that Harvard, finding it worth making a regular thing, may be followed...
...twin's marriage threatens this devotion, produces, in the Kennedy case, a murder, in the Simpson case, a suicide, by the boy twin; in both books there is a character called Tony. The differences, mainly differences in treatment, are more important and less conspicuous. Author Simpson nearly cracks a harder nut than the one Author Kennedy so easily pried apart. The ties that bind her twins are not such simple ones of sympathy and affection; her tragedy, confused with fortune tellers, horoscopes, telepathic visions is a more subtle, more bitter but less potent mixture...
...Berlin, that she had already been invited to open the new Metropolitan Opera House. She herself has spoiled the stories.? For her, opera is finished. Henceforth she works in miniature. In opera she played chiefly from her heart, from now on the New England thinking-cap must have harder wear. She will play, and live, from her head as well. For four years she has had the courage, intelligence, to live in seclusion studying, preparing herself for the new adventure?for Lieder, their finest lines, their beauty and simplicity...
...bored. They may just wander in because they have found the habit of wandering. But once he has started, one of two things happens to the CRIMSON candidate. He may drop in after two or three days, tell the Managing Editor that his studies are getting a bit harder, and he won't have time for the CRIMSON, shake hands and departs. Or he may cancel his social engagements for the next nine weeks, say good-bye to his roommate, and start working. Surprisingly few, once they have passed the first few trying days, ever quit. They keep on trying...
...heard your chairman say that the press men's lot has improved in recent years. That is a new experience to me. A Prime Minister's work is much harder than it used to be. Telephones and motor cars have added most distractingly to the daily labors of a Prime Minister. I wish none of them had ever been invented...