Word: toughest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From his experience in designing the just completed $20 million Social Security Hospital for Employees (one of the world's largest) in Lima, Peru and his University of Arkansas Medical Center (which won an American Institute of Architects Honor Award in 1952), Stone knew a hospital is "the toughest problem in architecture. It's as if every room were either a kitchen, a bath, or a boiler room. It is not something you can design by remote control." Stone moved his main office to Palo Alto, taking Maria along. Two weeks later, as Stone puts it, their firstborn...
...shared motel rooms fringed with drying laundry and the corner table swept clear for a pale respite of gin rummy. Sometimes movies will help kill the evening if local enthusiasts do not come through with a cocktail party-but always for the ladies, the 19th hole is the toughest...
...compromising his integrity. (He met Katharine Cornell and Thornton Wilder for the first time at his party.) A demanding but undogmatic critic, Massachusetts-born, Harvard-educated ('17) Atkinson writes his views in pencil in a neat hand on a ruled yellow pad. Against one of journalism's toughest deadlines-he usually has barely an hour to catch an edition after the first-night curtain falls-he sends his polished copy through in one-paragraph "takes." When a review is finished, he reads the proof but seldom changes a word...
Virtual Standstill. Of them all, the Pennsylvania Railroad had the toughest time. Four days after the storm, the Pennsy was still barely able to run 22 of its 74 daily trains between New York and Philadelphia, only 14 of the 53 trains normally operating between New York and Washington. Service between New York and Cleveland was at a virtual standstill. At one time or another, almost every one of the line's 139 electric engines was out of service. Unlike the engines on other lines, the Pennsy's GG1 locomotives have air-intake screens of imported French linen...
...said the Dartmouth meet would be the Crimson's toughest, and the varsity lost in the final relay. This week the team faces Princeton Saturday night at 8:30 at the I.A.B. Ulen has predicted that the varsity should take the Tigers without much trouble, and all indications second this opinion...