Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congressional sources differed this week about the chances of the Administration's new military manpower proposals, but there was general agreement here that while the program would in some ways benefit future students, it may make things a little tougher for those now in college...
...picture with just my face. If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll do something about it." If all else fails, Grace could conceivably break her contract and return to television. Or she could try the stage, where acting talent counts for more, and the competition is tougher. She could always give up the whole thing for the role of wealthy young socialite. But if her studio mentors are wise, and if Grace is as wary as she has so far proved to be, the young beauty from Philadelphia may yet become an authentic jewel in Hollywood...
Gauguin's latest biographers, the Hansons, are a British husband-and-wife team who have successfully sunk their teeth into some big, meaty subjects, including Necessary Evil: The Life of Jane Welsh Carlyle (TIME, May 19, 1952) and Chinese Gordon (TIME, May 31). Gauguin is an even tougher order, not only because he needs explaining as an artist who helped change the face of painting, but because he has become a symbol of the conflict between art and breadwinnery, artistic duty and normal social responsibility. In their fine study, the Hansons' own sympathy is with the artist...
...company of undisciplined men into an honor company then I have to wonder what kind of Army we are going to have in the future. Having spent seven years in the R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve in World War II, I can honestly say that British discipline (which is even tougher) made...
...Things may have been tough in 1954, said the National Education Association last week, but they will be tougher in 1955. There will be more than 30 million pupils in the nation's public schools-1,125,000 more than in the last school year. ¶ After questioning 591 college students in the Madras area, the New Delhi Eastern Economist found just how topsyturvy student social life has become. As a result of a growing movement against them, 55% of the Brahmans questioned said they now feel discriminated against, while only a third of the lower castes felt...