Word: harder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yards back. This shift will prevent injury to players smashing into posts on touchdown plays and will eliminate confusion caused by the old position of posts, often in the way of goal line plays and punts from back of the line. Drop-kickers will have to boot ten yards harder to score three points...
...acting of the star, the evening would have been unimpressive. Miss Cornell again plays the part of an untraditional heroine; a faithless woman; harder, colder this time than her Iris March of The Green Hat. She is one of the few great players in the land who will risk what is known as the sympathy of the spectators by playing women they wouldn't want around the house. Again she shows her genius in a character they dislike, yet makes them like...
...need of that celebrated quality. She must portray an Irish-born girl, "gone native" in Hawaii despite the fact that her father, a wealthy planter, entertains at his uproarious carousals the smartest Hawaiian society. Among the constant company is a slim siren of sophisticated manner. This only makes it harder for primitive Hula to capture the cold Englishman engineer who shaves every day, even in the jungle. To add to her difficulties, the thin-lipped Nordic already has a wife, who refuses a divorce. The artless child overcomes all these obstacles, in spite of the fact that until the last...
Briand's Rebuttal. Since M. Briand's enemies have been hurling much harder names than "Hypocrite!" at him for 30 years, the criticism of his colleague, M. de Jouvenel, drew from suave Aristide Briand a honeyed rebuttal in which no fly of irritation lurked...
...trust-building period was just closing in 1901. A "trust-busting" period was to follow. Judge Gary met Theodore Roosevelt in 1902 and, when the investigation of the U. S. Steel instigated by Mr. Roosevelt was completed in 1920, it was apparent that not even Mr. Roosevelt had worked harder than Judge Gary against the predatory tendencies of the trusts...