Word: harder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Evans Hughes had made the question harder by declining to keynote. In him the committee would have rejoiced. He had renounced candidacy. Toward all the candidates he had seemed equally impartial. He would have ennobled the occasion. But Mr. Hughes offered his work at the Pan-American Congress as his excuse for eschewing active service for a time...
...David Sinton Ingalls, a quizzical, shock-headed grandnephew of William Howard Taft. He left his class at Yale to fly and was 18 years old when the Armistice was signed. Ace Ingalls went back to college with his decorations in his pocket and applied himself to the harder heroics of graduating and getting a law degree. Then he married, was twice a father, practiced law quietly in his native Cleveland, entered the Ohio legislature. Rich, he never returned to France; but proceeded, by interesting himself in all manner of local business and civic enterprises, to make Cleveland his world. Like...
...difficulties of administrating the affairs of a college have always been tremendous. No umpire in a World's Series faces an audience harder to please than does a university president, whose acts are viewed by all the world; and no factor of his work is more troublesome than the financial part. The president of the back-country institution must spend far too much of his time visiting well-to-do alumni. President Lowell, on the other hand, is perhaps embarrassed by a flood of riches...
...Well, when I first stepped into the President's office I was nervous. It looked like it was going to be harder than I had expected...
...with a sloping roof. Each point is played twice. The spot where a player loses a point is marked and then the other player tries to beat this mark. On the net line sit individuals chanting in a monotonous voice. "Four-better than three-worse than three. . . ." The ball, harder and almost as heavy as a baseball, makes bulletlike noises as it hits the walls. Extra racquets are piled at the side of the court. Breaking one, a player grabs another, finishes the point. Sometimes in a hard game a champion breaks five or six racquets in succession. They cost...