Word: harder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eighteenth century or the Italian Renaissance, it is obvious that in our day and generation, the Classics are somewhat in eclipse. But there have been times when the clouds were even more thickly about them. As Odysseus remarked to his soul, "Bear it, brave heart; thou hast borne harder things than this." To those who know what treasures are laid up in the literatures of Greece and Rome, what opportunities for a culture at once nobly aristocratic and broadly human, there is no question that however long deferred, the day of the ancients will come again...
...stirring up more of a tempest in its teapot than it has bargained for. Saxony is the center of an ultra-radical party, as antipathetic to the reactionaries as fire is to water. And with every rattle of the Monarchist sabre, the red flag is waved a little harder. If the violent Right should go to buffets with the violent left, the trembling Center would find the back of passive resistance in the Ruhr well-high broken...
This is no harder to believe than Dean Cross's account of Washington's progress through New Haven. The general was escorted for some distance on his way by the students of Yale and, at their head, Noah Webster playing a flute...
...light in which they look upon the selection of a field of concentration. It the field first chosen prove unsuited, it appears a matter comparatively simple to change to another division, for the rules on that point are not very strict. But in later life it is harder to "get out of a rut", and the experience gained is very seldom worth the time spent. The man who has "tried his hand at everything" is generally to be found among the "aristocracy of the road...
...definite number of words. One man will write on the question at full length or in twice as many words as the instructions specify. He will receive a satisfactory grade. Another man with equal knowledge of the answer will follow instructions explicitly and do the much harder task of keeping within the required bounds. His grade will suffer because of his briefness...