Word: harder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fred Mitchell, Harvard baseball coach: "I've always said that the bigger they come the harder they fall, and this spitball pitcher that these Princetonian editors have may get by all right for eight innings but he's sure to blow up in the end. Tell the second baseman to play around, like Ullman doesn't, and the pitcher to keep out of the hole, like ours don't, play for the run, and you'll win. Anybody batting over a thousand gets a tryout with the Braves...
...Acting before the camera is much harder than performing on the stage. It requires more facial expression, especially with the eyes and every slight movement of the face or head which would be overlooked on the stage is caught by the impartial eye of the camera. In acting for the moving pictures one does not have the aid of one's voice, which, I find, is a very great asset on the stage. With all these means of expression cut off, the movie actor must rely almost entirely upon his or her face. As a result an actor must have...
Outside Philadelphia, Mary Gilmore, 7, and her brother James, 5, plucked flowers, tugged at a strong "root." Out from the soft soil came a woman's stiff finger. The children pulled harder and dragged forth the finger's hand and the forearm, a right one, to which the hand belonged. There was no body. Affrighted the children's parents summoned authorities, who smelled the medical laboratory solution used to pickle anatomical specimens and then decided that frolicsome medical students had "planted" the remnant to hoax Philadelphia police...
Next fall's schedule, which is considerably harder than the list of contests the team usually plays, is as follows...
...like bringing the waters of a wide stream together in a narrow channel where it will flow faster Vividness, emotion, intensity, these are all products of concentration on a single point. When we survey things from a distance in a more nearly proper perspective, we find it harder to be moved...