Word: harder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then came the period of fierce political struggle, during which he gradually became harder and more self-seeking. Then came the period of disappointed hopes and the bitterness of his last campaign. After that he flung away his personal ambition and to some extent his devotion to party. His life then became a strange mixture of devotion to moral and social reforms and a shrewd promotion of personal interests...
...first set, 6-1. Miss Goss stiffened, took the second set, 6-4. The gallery, which had seen Miss Goss eliminate Miss Mary K. Browne in the semi-final and expected an exciting match, became interested. In the third set Mrs. Mallory played hard, Miss Goss played harder. The games stood at five all. Miss Goss won the odd game, prepared to serve. Then the gallery at Providence perceived a flash of the nervous stamina that has made Mrs. Mallory six times champion of the U. S. With the loss oi only three points, she won the next three games...
...Manhattan, it was recognized that women golfers are not what they used to be. They are more so-stronger, harder-hitting. The Women's Eastern Golf Association, last week, elevated feminine par from the old yardage scale...
...easy to develop tests to compute the strength of egg-shells, but beef has so far been harder. The Bureau expects to develop a machine to measure the tensile and tortional strains of each little fiber of beef, but is careful to check the findings by the teeth of expert beef eaters. Just what use will be made of these tests the Department of Agriculture does not state. To the casual observer it would seem that all the packers and restaurateurs would rise in a body to protest against their ancient prerogative of serving tough steak. What is more likely...
Mapes, playing against Captain Cummings of Yale, put up a stiff battle before he succumbed to the intercollegiate champion on the sixteenth green, 3 up and 2 to go. Captain Hodder gave Wattles an even harder fight and carried the match to the seventeenth hole. In the foursomes Mapes and Hodder played the best golf of the afternoon, although they fell before Wattles and Ordway on the nineteenth hole. Barnum and Bohlen conquered Tuttle and Haviland of Yale in a very closely contested match which they ended on the seventeenth...