Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mysterious Trio. The man who is destined to win the Grail through his design for a festival pavilion is of a different, tougher breed. Marko Zuckerman's eyes speak, "Mongol-wise," of historic rapacity and plunder. His past is a mystery; all that is known of him is that he fled Hungary after World War II, showed up briefly in Paris with a big wad of money, then settled in Britain to amass more...
...scenes of terror. While the key gangster gives Chance a going over, the Arabs begin to riot in the town. Buildings are bombed, the gangster's house is attacked by the mob; and while Chance fights his love for Anna and takes his physical beating, he fights the tougher battle of a religious man trying to find the grace that will keep him spiritually sane. If Chance and Macgrady sometimes probe their souls to the edge of tiresomeness, Author Fielding always intervenes just in time with the flash and verve of a man who knows that a good story...
Tonight at Providence the Crimson might find the going even tougher than it did three weeks ago, for the sextet has had trouble there with Brown. Unless it can reverse the pattern of both the last Friar game and the contest with B.C. Monday night, goalie Harry Pratt will face a tough night...
...bought the daily Banner in Greenville (pop. 20,000), a northeast Texas county seat boasting the "blackest soil, whitest people." Harte-Hanks increased the size of the paper and its advertising staff, but could not show a profit. Meantime, the moneymaking, family-owned Greenville Herald, faced with this tougher competition, fell into the red. In 1956 the Herald, weakened by losses, was forced to sell out to Harte-Hanks. By the next year the merged Herald-Banner (circ. 8,694) was making money...
...best, if not the best" squad in recent years, according to coach Bill McCurdy, but it still "has its work cut out for it" in intercollegiate competition. All the varsity's future opponents, notably Yale and Army, have improved tremendously, and a few freshman wonders may provide even tougher competition next year...