Word: harder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professors Worked Harder Here...
...Meanwhile, Miss Ferber, in a study, newly acquired, is at work on a new novel of Chicago life. She works as hard every day as the man who stands outside my window now and makes life miserable for me and doubtless for himself with a steam rivetter. She works harder. The period when a novel is being written, for a writer with an artistic conscience, is apparently one of the most difficult things imaginable. Doubts assail, characters will not behave, words will not marshal themselves in neat array. It is my belief that, when an author gets over this pain...
...harder to toot...
...will set in. England does not produce nearly enough to feed her population. She imports food and at the same time her people emigrate. The same conditions will appear in the United States within the next half century unless we radically reduce our standards of living, or work much harder than we do now. I believe the latter possibility very doubtful," added Professor Carver with a smile...
There is nothing harder on a woman than moving. For a man, it means signing a lease or something of that kind and perhaps hiring an expressman. But a woman has to see that her china is packed so that it won't break, see that her clothes are all properly packed in trunks, see that a thousand and one things are accommodated in boxes, see that everything is properly disposed of at the destination, see that closets and floors and woodwork and corners are cleaned. There isn't any fun in it at all for her. Naturally...