Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco's Industrial Association had warned that it would open the port. The spot chosen for the attempt was Norton, Lilly's Pier 38, opposite the tough warehouse district which is known to oldsters as "South of the Slot."? Freight cars on the Belt Line Railroad which runs the full length of the broad brick and cobblestoned Embarcadero and is owned and operated by the State were spotted to screen the pier while police cars lined up to keep an open runway. Out of Pier 38 thundered five trucks bearing packaged birdseed, coffee, automobile tires. Before sundown 28 truckloads...
...through her back door, she takes an interest in him. When he needs an alibi for the murder of Angie, she supplies it. A mild fable with a morbid personnel, Midnight Alibi is impaired rather than improved by Richard Barthelmess, who makes grotesque faces when he tries to talk tough out of the corner of his mouth...
...terrified, to wit. a steer." The steer had crashed into an exit gate of the rodeo arena, rebounded and dashed off bellowing with pain, to the alarm of British spectators who would scarcely have noticed dogs permitted to "terrify" a fox. "Things like that don't hurt a tough steer," snorted Tex Austin. "So far our rodeo has had only four real accidents- all of them to cowboys. The record is four broken collarbones and one broken arm. That's what happened to my men. They have a great Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals here...
...they do that Harvard's sunk. Mitchell's laddies haven't looked like a pennant winner most of this season, and this is going to be a pretty tough assignment. The Green is in somewhat the same boat as Harvard. Both teams have only one Grade A experienced pitcher. Here at Cambridge it's Captain Eddie Loughlin; up at Hanover it's Bob Miller, the fellow who took both halves of a doubleheader from Pennsylvania last week. With Miller carrying most of the assignment Dartmouth has turned in a dangerous record lately. Outside the League they've taken colleges like...
Vanderbilt, one of the Yale Colleges, will furnish the opposition for the Angler oarsmen in the races which will be run off at Derby, Connecticut; and according to all reports, they are going to prove a tough nut to crack. As champions of the Elis, they cleaned up everything in their regatta held several days...