Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Folsom Prison in California and fled toward Nevada. Deputy McGeehan's posse started after them with bloodhounds and, after days and nights of travelling, passed close to a spot where three of the quarry were hiding. ''After the second day the country was so tough the bloodhounds gave out and I had to carry the best of them. . . ." When the three hiding men surrendered, McGeehan said their leader had said...
...seasons, was worried to death by mongrel dogs. Immediately a delegation was sent to a New Jersey slaughter house to pick a fit successor, for Fordham's game with St. Mary's College. The delegation surveyed all rams with care, picked as Rameses IV one whose tough, untidy appearance made him particularly lucky looking. Fortnight ago at the St. Mary's-Fordham game, Rameses IV stood on the side lines, looked as tough as possible. But Fordham lost-her first defeat in two years. Rameses IV was sent back to the slaughter house...
Flailing away with both hands, up and down the corn rows the farmers went as fast as they could go, each well-trained team of horses leading in front without direction, each tough cornstalk a fight. After 80 min. a gun boomed. Swiftly the judges weighed the yield. Ray Hanson of Cottonwood County, Minn, had the biggest load but he did not win. Competitive cornhusking has its intricacies. For every pound of marketable corn that the gleaners find left in the field the husker is penalized three pounds, for every ounce over five ounces of silks and shucks...
...dirt comes to me, an amateur starter is about as welcome as a stray Hip Sing in Mott Street. . . . Discovery that K. K. K. stood for 'Ku Klux Kon' has reduced the membership in the Klan from 9,000,000 five years ago to 35,000 now. Tough on the Imperial Wizard and the percentage-boy organizers, but I guess nobody else is weeping ? if we count out the pillow case industry. ... In New Jersey I see the Prohibition administrator is interviewing reporters through a peephole. Sorry, boys. Can't be too careful these days...
Briefly, graduate students and fellows of Yale have suddenly, and without warning or precedent, been forbidden to use alcohol from the laboratories for the purpose of beverages, now and forever more. After all, this is rather a tough situation down at Yale. They have always been lead to believe that they could count on those laboratories. No wonder they think it's a sin and a shameful waste. Harvard men may even be a little worried themselves, all except those who are smart enough to realize that forewarned is forearmed, and, according to a current rumor, intend to go down...