Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freshman year, as captain, he participated in 30 different records. For the next two seasons, he became progressively faster, reaching new and tougher goals he had set for himself. During this time he kept swimming faster, but did so inauspiciously, not so anyone would notice...
...rules are even tougher than those in Russian libraries, which are tough enough. "Lunacy," commented the Richmond News-Leader. "Have members of Danville's city council, doing research on a term paper, ever read a book standing up? Have they ever read a book? If it is too much to ask in these situations for a lot of common sense, could we humbly ask for just a little common sense? If a measure of foolishness is unavoidable, do we have to break records...
...tomato picker. Developed by the University of California and the Blackwelder Manufacturing Co., it enables one harvester and 13 other workers to do the work now done by 60 men. Like many another invention, it has already led to a further development: a new breed of tomatoes, with tougher skins to prevent damage from the machine and that ripen all at the same time. ¶"Cookies" for cows. International Harvester's hay pelletizer makes wafers from hay as it is mowed in the field. The wafers cut a farmer's loading and storage costs, lend themselves easily...
...this month from retiring President Mordecai Johnson, 70, is to lift Howard from its present position as the nation's most important Negro University (6,507 students in ten schools and colleges) to top academic rank by anyone's standards. The trouble is that the job gets tougher all the time. One of the quirks of U.S. integration is that as discrimination wanes on white campuses, the wealthy Ivy League schools outbid Howard for able Negro students, and Howard gets increasing numbers of Southern applicants with poor preparation...
...adding new strength to the engine nacelles, whose weakness was the plane's basic flaw, and to the wings. Lockheed will add strengthening attachments to the mount that supports the engine and to the structure that holds the mount to the wing. The wing will get new, tougher planks (lengthwise strips) and be otherwise stiffened by new bracing. The fixes will make the nacelles and wings "fail-safe," i.e., prevent the failure of any part from affecting the whole wing structure. American Airlines, which will sign the first contract, expects modifications of its fleet of 34 Electras to begin...