Word: harder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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High blood pressure, a disease mainly of old age results from many causes-riotous living, too strenuous athletics, brain fatigue, disease, any undue strain on the human corporation. To repair damage to worn or fatigued tissues the heart works harder to pump cleansing, healing blood. Normally the arteries-flexible, elastic, contractile tubes springing directly from the heart as the great aorta and ending far away as tiny arterioles-expand as the blood enters them, then contract progressively to push the blood onward to the ends of the body-to the brain, the vitals, the tissues of the heart itself...
...harmless; so why should anyone object? As for saying that England knows him for what he is-yes, they do. They know him as the greatest ambassador England ever had-and the most popular Prince-and don't expect him to be an Angel from Heaven! He works harder than most people suppose; why shouldn't he play sometimes...
...next speaker. "You have called me an inspiring leader," he said, "but it is I who have been inspired by leading these men here. Now tomorrow we're meeting a team that's a lot heavier than we are; but remember that old adage, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall.' We're going to make them fall tomorrow...
...good time. The greatest difference is in the tense of the verb with which you describe fathers and sons: one got it, the other is getting it. The truth of any comparison seems to reduce itself to this: undergraduates of today are more numerous and may have to work harder than those of yesterday, but the motives and capabilities of the two are almost identical...
Strong men are rare. Once in ten years, or twenty perhaps, one rises up, tempered and knowing, warden of an imperious secret. He lasts a little longer or goes a little harder than another before his strength, too, crumbles, and Death takes him. Last week it took Christy Mathewson...