Word: harder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harder Johnny Wilson (real name Giovanni Panica) pumped punches from his batteries, the faster Harry Greb attacked. After 15 rounds of bitter battle, at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Greb was declared the winner. He retained thereby his middleweight championship of the world, won from Wilson last September. Greb fights like a windmill-revolving, waving, swinging, slugging. Wilson has heavier hammers in his hands but he could not hit the windmill on the head. For several rounds he battered Greb's body. Shifting his attack to points higher up, he lost his aim. Meanwhile the champion drew blood from...
Playing a snappier and a harder game than their opponents, the Newton High School hockey team scored three goals to the Second Team's one yesterday afternoon on the Charlesbank rinks...
...amply demonstrated his skill as a rapid-shifting stick handler, but his agility at outwitting the man in front of him has not infrequently served to divert his attention from the more important task of speeding toward the opponents' cage. In his new position the boards make it harder for him to dodge, and more necessary to skate fast...
This evening at 7.30 the Freshman basketball team will face the Tufts first-year five at the Freshman Athletic Building. The visitors have won their two preliminary games from New Bedford High School and the Northeastern Business School by substantial margins. They will probably be harder for the Crimson team to dispose of than was the Boston Y. M. C. A. quintet last Saturday...
...spite of the fact that the great number of substitutions enabled the University stick-men to work harder while they were on the ice, this difference in reserves was not sufficient to account for the far greater speed which the Harvard men flashed on all occasions. It was a common sight for the Crimson forwards to walk right away from any B. U. man who attempted to check them, while it was equally the rule for an opposing player who had broken loose towards the goal to be overhauled from behind by one of the University skaters...