Word: tough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with two games this week in the frozen North--Montreal University tonight at the Montreal Arena and McGill tomorrow night at the same place. Following closely on the heels of two rather hectic Quadrangular League battles, with Dartmouth and Yale respectively, this Canadian trip will complete just about as tough a week's ice workout as the most ardent hockey fan could hope...
Franklin Roosevelt's practical solution was to make three new judicial appointments which: i) pointedly disregarded the Senate, and 2) made it tough for Senators to complain. All these three were just the kind of non-political appointments which made editorial applause obligatory. Disregarding complaints by Ohio's unpredictable Senator Vic Donahey the President chose, for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, distinguished Dean Herschel W. Arant of Ohio State University's Law School. Disregarding a White House call by Pennsylvania's loyal Senator Joe Guffey, the President chose for the Third Circuit Court able Philadelphia...
Charles Edison thereupon found himself not only on a tough job but in a curious personal relationship with other Navy rankers. By statute and regulation the Assistant Secretary has under him the Navy's "shore establishments" (Yards & Docks; Engineering; Construction & Repair; Supplies & Accounts). He also has much to do with the Bureaus of Aeronautics (planes) and Ordnance (guns). But he -is exclusively responsible for none of these; the Chief of Naval Operations is also interested. And over both is the Secretary of the Navy. But he is exclusively responsible for none of these; the Chief of Naval Operations...
Dunc Longcope gave one of the best fights of any one during the afternoon. The sophomore handed 175 pound Captain Robert Taylor another football man of the Lions a tough fight as he kept him from winning by any more than a decision. At times it looked as if Dunc might even take...
...Jitsu Not So Tough...