Word: tough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they had predicted. Chosen as one of the 25 players to represent the American League in the sport's mid-season classic, young Feller, suddenly waved into the game in the middle of the sixth inning to replace Tiger Tommy Bridges, found himself in a tough spot. The score was 3-to-1. The National Leaguers had the bases loaded-and only one man was out. Two runs would tie the score. But the Iowa farm boy, playing in his first All-Star game, ambled out to the mound as nonchalantly as if he were going to feed...
Saga. A self-styled "little squirt anxious to be a tough guy," Paul Smith skipped through high school in Pescadero, Calif., at 14 set out to rub against the world. He jumped a harvest train, spent some time in the wheat fields of Saskatchewan, rode freight trains east to Ontario for gold, found none, jumped another freight back, worked in British Columbia logging camps (where friendly lumberjacks organized a bodyguard to protect him from those who resented his slickness), prospected in the Mojave Desert (where all he got was sunstroke), shoveled coal in Utah and Pennsylvania, bummed. Once, arriving...
...first Alsifilm was whitish and opaque, like a tough vellum paper. This quality suggested its use as a durable medium for writing and printing. Dr. Hauser is now making another kind, from a clay he discovered in California's Death Valley, which is almost completely transparent and waterproof-usable as wrapper for tobacco and foods. He is also experimenting with this type as a possible material for photographic films and automobile windows...
...Tough-minded Javier Bueno was a Socialist who, after the 1934 Republican-Socialist rebellion, was fined 32,000,000 pesetas and sentenced to death for being "ideologically responsible" for the rising. The death sentence was commuted to 30 years' imprisonment, but for good measure some officers of the Foreign Legion hanged Javier Bueno from the wall of his office in a harness of barbed wire and fed him copies of his Avance. Bueno got out of prison in the general amnesty that followed the 1936 elections and refused to join Largo Caballero's revolutionary movement. But when...
Primary Nazi propaganda is the assertion that the Germans of today are tough, strong, exuberantly healthy. Actually, they are an ailing, weakened people; Germany's state of public health is like that of a country in the last throes of a war of attrition. Such was the burden of medical reports which reached the U. S. last week- by way of Das Neue Tage-Buch, a Parisian anti-Nazi paper, but based on official statistics of the Reichsgesundheits-amt (Reich Department of Health...