Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Samuel Rufus Rosoff was born in Minsk, Russia, 53 years ago. Aged u, he worked his way to the U. S. as a potato-peeler on an immigrant ship. A tough, dirty little boy who had never been inside a school, he sold newspapers, slept on warm sidewalk gratings, learned to read at the Public Library. One job led to another until Samuel Rosoff was building New York City subways, operating bus lines, brewing King's beer, buying race horses and making money hand over fist. Today he often carries $50,000 cash in his pockets, tells competitors: "Money...
...Dominic Mintola of Toms River, N. J. spent 68? to mail to President Roosevelt a 36-lb. log given him by the local relief agency. Dolee Mintola complained that the wood was swamp gum, "tough as rubber under the ax, exuded more moisture than a water-soaked grapefruit rind" and the pieces were too large for his stove...
Four years ago, after he broke the England-Australia record in a tiny Gypsy-Moth, Flight Lieutenant Charles William Anderson Scott declared wearily: "I wouldn't make the attempt again for a million pounds." But the long, tough course had not really beaten the onetime light-heavyweight boxing champion of the British Royal Air Force. Few months afterward he flew back to England in record time. Later he made a second trip, settled down to a job as commercial pilot in Australia, got his face permanently scarred when he dashed into a burning plane to save a passenger after...
...Tough Work...
Coach Harold Ulen's Varsity mermen will have a tough battle with the Brown swimmers tonight at 8.30 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building, while the Crimson Freshmen will vie with Brown's '38 tankmen, at 7.30 o'clock...