Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With major intercollegiate competition shelved until February, the Crimson will have to be content with games in the tougher metropolitan league, largely composed of local clubs whose playing resters list many former eastern college squash greats...
...could have selected a tougher team for the Crimson hockey forces to open against McGill and Toronto both had open dates. But if the schedule makers were hunting for a bruising squad, they couldn't have picked a better one than...
...matter how hard the public is to please, or how hard-to-sell the picture, Hollywood knows that it can count on exhibitors. Last week, as if to keep in trim for tougher times ahead, theater managers were pushing movies with all the zeal, noise and logic of oldtime pitchmen hawking snake...
Things Were Tough. As Smith's article hit the newsstands last week, the Army leaped to the defense. Things had been much tougher for the 27th than Howlin' Mad had had any idea of, the Army insisted. In the center, it had been up against the main enemy defenses. It was late jumping off only because the Marine division it was relieving had lost about 500 yards during the night, which the 27th had to regain. Finally, the Army pointed out that an all-Army board of inquiry had declared Smith's relief "not justified...
...General Eisenhower to stick by his guns was a tougher job than has ever been told until now. This week, in the 559 pages of Crusade in Europe, Ike explains just how tough it was. Written in the brisk and serviceable monotone of West Point English, it is Ike's own indispensable record of the war in Europe and Africa...