Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game was a long tough battle from the start, developing into a pitching duel between Bill Lincoln of Harvard and Horton, the former striking out six, walking three, and getting touched for ten hits, the latter striking out 11, walking two, and yielding 11 hits...
...tough Beer-Guzzler Gough, congratulations...
...Howey. But what Director Brisbane did not say about "News Adviser" Howey would fill a bang-up book, had already tilled a feverish play, The Front Page. For Walter Howey is the man Playwrights Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur had in mind when they presented the character Walter Burns-the tough, smooth Chicago managing editor who stole the dead woman's stomach from the coroner's physician to prove she was poisoned; who scooped the town on a jailbreak, caught the mayor in skulduggery, shanghaied his ace reporter from his honeymoon all in three dizzy acts...
Near Brownstown, Ind. last fortnight Harold Jankowitz, 20, CCC worker, chewed the head off a blacksnake for $1. Said he: "I didn't really bite its head off. I mostly pulled it off. The snake was too tough." Worker Jankowitz added the $1 to a fund with which he hopes to pay for an eye operation so he may take a West Point entrance examination...
Springfield, Mass. has four newspapers, all of them owned by big, tough Sherman Hoar Bowles. Besides the famed Republican founded by his ancestors, there are the Morning Union, Evening Union and the somewhat less respected Daily News...