Word: tougher
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Although the Crimson might be a slight favorite when at full strength, Wesleyan rates an even chance in this afternoon's game. Bruce Munro figures on opposition tougher than Williams, but not as tough as Trinity. The Crimson topped Williams 2-1 in overtime, but lost to Trinity...
...Notre Dame's football team, ranked the nation's best by a wide margin in the Associated Press poll, limbered up its offensive for tougher games ahead by rushing and lateral-passing to an easy victory over Purdue University, 37-7. The No. 2 team, Michigan State, overpowered the University of Minnesota, 21-0, to move into the Big Ten's top spot and push its victory streak to 26 straight games, longest of any major college. Unrated Princeton furnished the thriller of the week, drew even with Columbia by scoring on a desperate forward pass with...
...Tide of Revolution. At a time when many a U.S. businessman fears a recession and the threat of much tougher competition, P. & G. is a prime example of i) how to sell goods despite recessions, and 2) how bitter competition both inside and outside a company can make it grow. Although P. & G.'s practice of letting Ivory Soap dispute the claims of detergent Tide makes little sense to many other businessmen, P. & G.'s McElroy thinks that it is the only way to keep his soap salesmen on their toes. He is never happier than when...
Some groups are tougher. It took him three years, Kinsey likes to recall, to win the confidence of "the Times Square underworld." Once the goons and dope peddlers learned that he was a straight-shooter who would not betray them to the cops, they began to take pride in helping a man of science. Now, if he loiters on the steps of Manhattan's Astor Hotel, he needs a bodyguard to fend off the too-willing contributors...
...Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas dropped into a dentist's chair, decided it was as good a place as any to reel off some mental floss. Samples : 1) he considers this month's successful assault of Kashmir's Nanga Parbat by German climbers a "far tougher'' feat than the Hillary-Tenzing conquest of Everest; 2) Syngman Rhee is the "George Washington" of Korea, and deserves America's sympathy and support, as does Mohammed Mossadegh, "the first great ruler in [Iran's] history to have been raised up by the people"; 3) Chiang...