Word: harder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...task which confronts them in the contest tonight is particularly difficult since the affirmative side has been demonstrated as the harder to present logically and convincingly. The team is relying on a combination of humor and logic to carry them to victory over their more strongly entrenched opponents A brief outline of their proposed plan of attack has been made public...
...small colleges within the University is not so imaginative as to dream of an Oxford or a Cambridge on the banks of the Charles River. If it wished to be thoroughly initiative it would have no transplant the roots of English tradition with their growth of centuries, an incomparably harder task than supplying new elms for the Harvard Yard. A Magdalen or a Magdalene cannot be improvised. If the English colleges were imported and grafted on an American university they surely would suffer extraordinary sea change...
...slow, she wove from side to side, forehand, backhand, stroking hard, deftly?but not so hard, not so deftly as a moment before. Lenglen took the next three games. Wills took the seventh, another deuce game. Lenglen evened the score. Wills took another game. She was hitting her service harder now. The handsome, impassive Greek mask of her face was weary drawn. Lenglen evened the score again, Wills took the odd game?and then occurred that curiously dramatic incident which gave all the U. S. sporting sheets an opportunity to say that Miss Wills had been cheated...
...bold and true who recently suggested that the publishing of Miss Lowell's worst verse in all and sundry magazines does not help the sale of the "Life". There should be a Society for the Protection of the Reputations of Deceased Authors. Then literary Jerry Crunchers would have harder work, meriting their doctorates...
General Kuo and his wife hastily disguised themselves as coolies and attempted to hide in a cellar. There they were seized by General Yang, a lieutenant of Super-Tuchun Chang. General Kuo's wife attempted to escape and was instantly and mercifully shot dead. For Kuo remained a harder fate. He watched while his dead wife's arms and head were cut off. Then his own legs were hacked from his body and as he swooned he was decapitated...