Word: harder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assumed the task of pinning safety pins upon stiff cloth. A ribbon was fastened to each safety pin. That made the task harder, but the little man's fingers flew. He pinned, and he pinned, faster, faster. Each pin must lie exactly straight. Each ribbon must hang just so. Faster, faster, FASTER...
Paul Berlenbach showed that he was not afraid to fight. He fought boxers and took what they had to give and tired them out; he boxed fighters and hit harder than they did. In December he beat young Jack Delaney, a French-Canadian who could both dance and hit. Critics began to think better of Paul Berlenbach...
...session, but were six odd millions below the original estimates submitted to the 69th Congress. Senator Warren found joy in these figures: "Good times and prosperity are immediately reflected in a demand for increased as well as new governmental functions. . . . No Congress ever made a greater record or a harder and more honest and faithful effort for economy...
...object was to produce an animal that, on minimum food, would work harder in hot weather than a mule. This he succeeded in doing, although the zebroids are difficult to break to harness However, at six years old, the eight zebroids do any farm work that horses perform, and can unquestionably stand far more heat, which is the purpose of the zebra strain. The beasts are docile and intelligent in harness, but race boisterously once loosened in an enclosure, showing speed and agility in pivoting at corners, rivaling panthers in their ease in clearing fences. If the beasts are corraled...
...citizen. He was not afraid of little Samuel Mandell, a street-shiek of 22 with oiled hair and a nice smile, who confronted him in a rainy ball park in Chicago last week. Mandell kept popping left jabs into his face; even a very ordinary citizen could have hit harder than that, and Kansas smiled his rocky smile. Yet, after he had endured ten rounds of slapping and cuffing, waiting for a chance to land a real blow, the referee gave the bout, the championship, to Samuel Mandell...