Word: tough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Lutz it was anybody's ball game, but without him it was a different matter because his running mate Fred Heckel had a tough night and just could not get going. Aside from Lutz, the game was featured by Harvard's strong defensive play. Lupien played his usual top-notch game against the Tiger star, Johnny Meyerholtz, while Homer Peabody and Tread Ruml managed to hold lanky Captain Scof Scofield of the Orange and Black in check...
Resuming their League schedule after nearly four weeks of midyear lull, the Varsity puckmen will face off with a dangerous Dartmouth six tonight at the Boston Garden in the opening game of a very tough February ice campaign...
Then next Monday the squad will entrain for Canada to take on Montreal on Tuesday and McGill on Wednesday. McGill, leading the League with a clean slate, is, of course tough opposition under any circumstances. Montreal, present cellar incumbent, will be the only easy team to beat that the Hoddermen will face in the next two weeks...
Discounting all the evidence of irresponsibility in his work, sober critics are inclined to respect tough, small Pablo Picasso's insistent assertion of his own independence, to find in it an example of commonplace psychological and artistic health. But with equal sobriety they feel that the time is past for amazement, shock or swoon over Pablo Picasso; that young painters had better know their own minds, their craft and their time as well as Picassian esthetics. Says Picasso, bored: "Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of the birds? Why does one love...
Rowdy and tough are the boys in little Oswego (Ill.) High School. Last month they hounded Principal Melvin G. Attig to suicide (TIME, Jan. 2). Shocked Oswegans hoped that the tragedy would startle the boys into decency, but they took no chances. As the new principal they picked a gruff-voiced six-footer, Clarence Salter. To everybody's amazement, Oswego's rowdies, unchastened by Melvin Attig's breakdown, promptly started to haze Principal Salter. Two days after his arrival they rang a false alarm, brought fire engines shrieking to the school...