Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Andy Bahr is a tough, squat, nut-brown little Laplander who is reputed to know more about reindeer than any man in the world. He was past 60 and settled down to running a Seattle apartment house when Carl Joys Lomen, "Alaskan Reindeer King," went to him one day in 1929 with a problem. On the barren rim of the Arctic Ocean in northernmost Canada some thousands of Eskimos were in a sorry fix. Banging away with white men's guns, they had killed off or scared away most of the caribou and walrus on which they lived. Unless...
...Commissioner Valentine's flow of angry words surged the pent-up wrath of 31 years of police experience. He joined New York City's force at the bottom in 1903, suffered one Tammany slight and setback after another for his persistence in going after politically influential crooks. Big, grim, tough, rigidly honest, he got his chance when the LaGuardia reform administration took office...
...Economic Security, which in turn gathered around it a group of expert advisers to plow the virgin field of "social security" and raise a fruitful crop of legislative ideas. Last week's White House meeting which the President addressed was, in a sense, a general breaking of hard tough soil...
...Manhattan, which he was visiting on business. Taken to the prairies as a child during the Civil War, he started in business with 3,000 borrowed dollars, eventually ruled a $100,000,000 empire that included banks, power, telephones, railroads. Unable to refund a bond issue in 1931, tall, tough President Backus lost control. Last January he fiercely started a comeback in the form of a suit to dismiss his receivers for mismanagement (TIME...
...year ago Schumann would have been a regular if he hadn't had tough luck with an injury. This fall his long stretch without much contact work resulted in a slow start which he has only overcome within the last couple of weeks. Hitherto he has ranked below the other two, but West Point may give him his chance to get back at the top of the ladder...