Word: harder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Entering its third week of indoor practice in the new cage on Soldiers Field, the University baseball squad of about 40 men is passing from its warming-up period to longer and harder work-outs...
Thus for four years Peter lived. He came to know everyone of importance, and as an usher at dances found his name in the papers more often than that of the football captain. This was partly due to the fact that he looked harder for his name. But this, kiddies, is not a tale with a moral. Peter did graduate; and at Commencement as he looked about him and saw the worn and haggard expressions of those men who had worked hard, or who were in posts of importance he laughed; imagine having done all that work when you could...
...Reserve banks have a specific and unquestioned method of making it expensive to borrow money. But this method cannot be indiscriminately applied. In the first place, a high discount rate will attract money from foreign countries. More important, however, is the fact that the Reserve bank cannot make it harder for the speculator to borrow money without making it correspondingly harder for the businessman or the farmer to borrow money. A rise for one is a rise for all. If Wall Street pays dearly for money, so will Main Street...
Charlotte pirouetted on artificial ice. . . . Houdini wore straitjackets . . . Annette Kellerman in black epidermal tights . . . Toto . . . Marceline . . . Perche-rons . . . choruses not as pretty but much harder-working than the later Follies...
Cricket is liked by almost every British citizen, no matter where he lives. It is played with a ball harder than a baseball, with big flat bats, with eleven men on a side, two batters (one at each wicket), a bowler, a wicketkeeper, and an interval of tiffin. The professional members of a team eat in a part of the clubhouse separate from the amateurs' and their names are printed without "Mr." in the lineups...