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Word: tougher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is a start in a heavy schedule against Greater Boston's tougher hockey teams from women's colleges. Free beer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Funsters Off to Sticks | 10/19/1951 | See Source »

...Thirty-odd years ago tonsils were often clipped instead of cut out, which made them tougher and sometimes bushier, like pollarded poplars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Better Leave Them In | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...backfield also promises much, both offensively and defensively. Art French and John Tulenko give the secondary a big speed boost. If linebacker Tom Ossman can keep busting through tougher lines the way he splintered Springfield's the Crimson defense will stop a good many enemy marches...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 9/25/1951 | See Source »

...signed; so did ex-Premier Saverio Nitti. In Canada, Clergyman Alexander James Wilson signed because "I would do anything under heaven to ensure peace." In the days when the dove was really flapping, his prize victim was Henry Wallace, who pleaded that the Russians were misunderstood and that "the tougher we get, the tougher the Russians get." Others confusedly offered plans for "proving" the U.S. meant no offense. Example: Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon's proposal for atomic disarmament in return for a $50 billion program of global aid, to include the Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Flight of the Dove | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

Small fry have been balking at piano lessons for a long time; the new distraction of TV often makes things even tougher. But Music Teacher Bernard Gabriel, 37, thinks he knows how to win: make sure the kids have fun. Sometimes this leads to a circus atmosphere in his Manhattan studio. Says Teacher Gabriel: "I've never yet heard of a child who hated circuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Piano Lessons Can Be Fun | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

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