Word: harder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fortnight in the New York State Legislature, the Baumes Crime Commission sought to sharpen the teeth of existing Baumes laws with 84 new recommendations, to make parole and bail harder, conviction easier, take deadly weapons from the hands of criminals. At the same time 38 bills to make the recommendations effective were introduced in the legislature...
...Nashville, Tenn. Joseph, onetime city editor of the Nashville Banner, even refused to act as Washington correspondent for several newspapers. He died at the age of 59-a successful manager for the Maryland Casualty Co. People said he looked like the War President, except that his features were harder, and genius had not touched his brow...
...next job I take won't be building baseball cages; I can tell you that," said Harry Clark, foreman in charge of the construction work on Soldiers Field, "I'm looking for a harder job; there's nothing to this...
...Freshman game was even harder fought than the University struggle. The end of the first half saw Harvard leading at 21 to 20. During most of the second half, the Freshmen retained a slight lead, which never exceeded four points...
...Cabinet meeting, Dictator-President Mustafa Kemal Pasha voiced the real dissatisfaction of Turks at the action of the U. S. Senate. The U. S., said Dictator Kemal, in substance, does not understand that the "Terrible Turk" of Ottoman days is extinct. . . . The Young Turks of today are trying harder and with more success than any other backward people to catch up with the march of civilization...