Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wilbur J. Bender '27, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids, said the competition for admittance into the class of '57 will undoubtedly be tougher because of the G.I. influx. "But," he said, "we'll probably have no special policy on veteran admissions this year...
...Then You Get Sicker." Anyone looking for marks of the wacky genius will not find them in the Millay letters. She was deadly serious about her work; sometimes she spent months on a single short poem. And she could be much tougher on herself than her dazzled critics: "I couldn't make up my mind whether or not to send the poems, they all seem so verminous." What she wrote to her mother about her sister's first book was the kind of gritty common-sense that would have startled her fans: "A person who publishes a book...
Another factor which makes Crimson backers expect the Tiger to have a much tougher go than forecast, is that desire has been so much of a factor in the performances...
Stouffer cautioned, however, that "these last minute trends put the polishers in a tougher spot then ever. If the trend toward Stevenson had demonstrably been stopped or reversed, Ike's lead would have made the odds in his favor. Now, as far as one can tall from the polls, the odds are about even...
...Veteran Allen had dropped from No. 2 in the ratings to No. 38. Fred Allen quit radio, muttering: "When people can get listeners by giving away three iceboxes instead of two, this is a silly business anyway." The next year Parks met, and has so far mastered, an even tougher opponent: the Federal Communications Commission. By a vote of 3-1, the FCC banned giveaways from the air (TIME, Aug. 29, 1949). The networks promptly appealed to the courts, where the case still rests. But public apathy was able to do what FCC couldn't: dozens of giveaways, including...