Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japanese are not very good baseball players. However hard they try, there is some gymnastic constraint in little yellow Japanese frames which makes it impossible for them to throw and catch without an awkwardness. They are at their best in running and sliding between bases; their feet are quick and they give little birdlike cries on arriving safely, or shrill furious ones when they are tagged. The terminology of baseball in Japan is identical with that in the U. S.; it is strange to hear the hordes of rooters, their eyes swimming with suspense, abusing pitchers in their own tongue...
...Japanese are ardent sports; they play hard and they idolize those who play any game better than they. Thus Gehrig, Tilden, Tunney, Ruth are far greater names to them than that of Tsunenohana, their champion wrestler. Japanese baseball addicts possess a faculty which U.S. fans in some measure lack: they like to play as well as watch. Japanese players, unlike U.S. ones who speak largely of golf, poker and guzzling, like to hear about their U.S. counterparts. The little pitchers have big ears and the catchers wait anxiously every day to hear what is doing with big league catchers...
...once gave me when I wrote down my occupation as 'composer.' Might just as well have written down 'ballet dancer.' People had the idea that music was a woman's business, like, well, like knitting. A musician and a poet had a pretty hard...
...same time it was also announced that Professor Arthur Burk-hard and Professor William B. Munro will be on leave of absence for the first term of the next college year...
...arguments of a post-election whispering campaign have at length become so loud that a mere "Hush!" from those called big-wigs is not enough to silence the speakers. Whatever that hard-gained Smith majority in the Bay State may have signified politically, it gave Governor Fuller, long the Republican Party's second prize publicity artist, a chance to step out to a sizeable lead over his once superior opponent, the vociferous Mr. Goodwin. Working on the sufficient assumption that an officer soon to be emeritus is safe from slings and arrows, the Governor has been chuckling pretty constantly...