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Word: harder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Graphic's contest was too difficult for their average reader, and the harder they make them the better for the experts. A simple contest for simple people would have been much more successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...people who take part in them. To understand a nation, it is necessary to know more than its constitution and its language; the more complete history becomes, the more humble, the more complex and the more exciting it becomes. But as it grows more complex it grows harder to write; selection becomes a game of chance; order and emphasis grow unruly. As in The Turn of the Century, the first of his three volumes full of Our Times, Author Sullivan has managed in America Finding Herself, to make his facts behave. Again by sheer quantity of unexpected, unorthodox, incongruous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Humble History | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...other, splashing and blowing, were George Bernard Shaw, Mr. Wells would pause not, but play to first. It is not that he hates Animal Rescue League more, but he loves Shaw loss. "To the future," he says, "Shaw will have contributed nothing, and yet he may be harder to forget than Pavloff because his extraordinary industry in sitting to painters, photographers and sculptors will fill the galleries of the future with his portraits, medals, statues and busts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEANWHILE | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...Brancusi, keeping hardwood planks around your doorsteps in the sun waiting for the hardwood to be harder for your hard hands to handle, you, Brancusi, .with your chisels and hammers, birds going to cones, skulls going to eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bird | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...argued that to honor every visiting band by learning to play one of its tunes and forming the letter on the field would require too much time, let it be pointed out that college songs are no harder to learn than the light, soothing music with which touchdown-thirsty patrons are entertained during dull periods of the game. The Athletic Association has further made things easier by scheduling only seven games that require separate letters, for even the most rabid stickler on form could scarcely object to using the Purdue "P" for the Pennsylvania game. Philologists further point out that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIRTY MUSIC | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

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