Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editors agreed to collaborate on a quiz for schools, but barred it from the magazine. But this first school test went over so big that the editors changed their minds. They decided to publish a tougher version, which appeared in our issue of March 11, 1935. When readers requested 18,000 extra copies, the test became a regular feature...
Last week the Constitution and the other papers won a complete victory. Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge signed a new, even tougher bill, which banned the whole paraphernalia of hooded terror...
...Tack's" reverence for Texas is fanatical and often funny. Panhandle women, he wrote, have the world's prettiest legs, made strong and muscular by leaning against the fierce Panhandle winds. Panhandle dogs are tougher; Panhandle skunks are twice as odorous. Even in the dust-bowl days he bragged that no other place could produce such suffocating dust clouds. According to legend, the Northwest Texas Hospital took Tack's tall boastings so seriously that it ordered beds a foot longer than normal to accommodate Panhandle patients...
Yardling high jumper Matt Reynolds cleared 5 ft. 11 in. on his final attempt to win the freshman track with Andover last Saturday, 50 1/2 to 48 1/2. The Crimson found tougher opposition than expected, and the meet was close until...
Here is a good team--well-balanced, well-coached, eager. It should fare well in the Boston competition, which ought to be tougher than what it met here...