Word: harder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the Elis have been victorious only twice in seven games, their apparently bad record, while favorable to the University, must not be regarded as pointing to a swift and certain Crimson victory today, for the Yale schedule has been much harder than that of the University team, for it included games with Annapolis, Maryland and Hobart. Yale scored twice on Syracuse, but was defeated 4 to 2, while the University in its contest with the New York team came out on the short end of a 3 to 1 score...
Hard things have been said of college tutors, none harder than by the modern Juvenal I have just quoted. For example...
...reached Derne. The Bey's cavalry fled, disordered; the city fell; then-the U. S. withdrew its support. Eaton, "The Hero of Derne," his fame on every tongue but his hour over, returned to the U. S. At first, millions listened to his story. It became gradually harder to find friendly souls; Hero Eaton found most of them among tipplers. In a big sombrero and Turkish sash, he drank himself to death in the taverns of Richmond...
...Mellon and Couzens are both very rich men. They are the richest two men in active political life. Each is the case of a man able to command any form of leisure or diversion known to wealth, but foregoing all that and actually working harder at the public business than the most driven laborer...
...course, must always be attacked, just as one feels free to criticise the Constitution or the White Mountains. It is the price always paid for strength and excellence, above all for the steady resistance to dogma, religious, political and economic; it is the sharp wind that blows the harder, the swifter and the better the ship. Harvard as a spiritual entity whose function is to teach and haply to educate the youth, asks nothing better than to be counted a worker in our American Commonwealth, but as such entity cannot and must not have its facts manufactured...