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Jacob was never much. His mother died of consumption when he was very small. Papa Djugashvili (who later called himself Stalin) used to try to toughen up little Jacob's lungs by blowing pipe smoke in his face. So Jacob took up smoking before he was ten; and his father had to beat him for that...
Meanwhile the waiting desk in the White House piled up. Soon the President must, however reluctantly, toughen up Government defense relations with labor. He must recommend greatly increased taxes. He must ordain, for the first time, the first U. S. sacrifices. He must decide how far to go in feeding Europe's noncombatants. He must fit unemployment and agricultural relief plans into the defense program...
...toughen them morally as well as mentally and physically, Miss Ruutz-Rees made her girls enact their own rules of conduct, mete out their own punishments. Result is strict discipline. For eating candy (only fruit is allowed between meals), a Rosemarian is kept "on bounds" for two weeks. Some other rules: no chewing gum or cigarets (except for sixth formers), no lipstick or nail polish while in uniform, no reading unpermissioned literature or attending unpermissioned movies...
...Gabe is more seriously captured in his mother's love than he realizes. At the finish, with his graduation from high school, he has come soundly through to the edge of independent maturity. In between, he has had a lot to please him, plenty to trouble and toughen...
Apparently Fesler has been atempting to toughen his first team in anticipation of long service in Ivy League encounters, by allowing them to participate long after the game is on ice. Herrick especially tires easily. Because the center reserves are inexperienced and not as yet ready for Varsity competition, it has been necessary to move Lowman over from his forward position. With height less emphasized for a center under the new ruling which gives the ball to the scored on team after a basket, the team will be at no great disadvantage with Lowman in the pivot post...