Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity faded as it ran into tougher competition and Purdue and Dartmouth both took the Crimson's measure. A victory over Holy Cross was dampened by a CRIMSON editorial which accused the Band of playing "Dirty Music" between the halves. While this accusation might seem somewhat vague, the fact was that the band was charged for not playing the Holy Cross song. The musical ensemble staunchly proclaimed that it had and that the CRIMSON editors were deaf. Nothing was proven and the band played on. The yardlings rolled on behind Ticknor's field goal to defeat Dartmouth...
...provides only mild penalties-six months in jail or a maximum $27 fine -for "soliciting openly in public ... or embracing or seizing a prospective partner." On procurers, who roam the Japanese countryside offering poverty-stricken farmers cash loans in return for the indentured services of their daughters, penalties were tougher: up to three years in prison or a maximum $277 fine.*Toughest of all are the penalties on bordello mama-sans (madams): up to ten years in jail or a maximum $833 fine. Financial aid was promised to help local communities rehabilitate their ex-prostitutes, but there was no compulsion...
...north col near the Sherpa village of Sama as the only possible route, and the first climbers started upward. Monsoons slowed them and they finally quit, their supplies exhausted. In the spring of 1954 the Japanese returned. They had doubled their supplies but this time their opposition was tougher. Outside Sama, angry villagers threatened them with a barrage of yak dung and stones. Manaslu, the village headman explained, was Sama's "sacred mountain," and by trying to climb it, the Japanese had angered Sama's gods. That winter, as punishment, the gods had sent an avalanche to level...
Annapolis was tougher for Burke than for most. "I didn't have enough background," he explains. "I nearly bilged out the first year. I had to work like hell, and I got in the habit of it." The habit has never been broken: Burke works from 12 to 14 hours for at least six, and often seven, days a week, has had only one 30-day leave since he left Annapolis 33 years...
...from depreciation, leaving $50 million which must be borrowed. As it is. says Chairman Ben Moreell. the company held dividends to 62½? per share on record first-quarter earnings of $2.09 per share, with the rest going into expansion. Expansion beyond the next few years will be even tougher for steelmakers. Entirely new plants must be built from the ground up, at as much as $350 per ingot ton. v. $100 to $200 per ingot ton for expansion in existing plants...