Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year the Jayvee crew represents a mass of good material the likes of which has not been seen for several years at Harvard. As a result of the tough competition and real interest that the Junior Varsity oarsmen have shown this year's Junior Varsity is one of the best spirited crews ever to launch the second shell...
...hundred and seventy pounds, if that, while this year he weighs over a hundred and eighty pounds. The catch is that he gained the weight comparatively suddenly after an attack of grippe last winter. The result was that he lost a lot of power and had a tough time getting back into form. However, right now he has about the smoothest form on the second sight and is one of the strongest men in the boat...
...first four men named handed St. John's College a next 0 to 0 setback, and with the help of Lou Roswer and Dickerman trimmed Boston University 0 1/2 to 2 1/2 in a six-man encounter. Then came successive defeats, and equally tough to take, of 5 to 4 at the hands of Bowdoln and Amherst...
...Vermont poor boy, Thad Stevens was admitted to the bar in John Wilkes Booth's birthplace, Bel Air, Md., practiced law in York, Pa. He had the tough, narrow tenacity and discernment of the perfect sectional and sectarian infighter. As far as he saw, he saw clearly; as far as he thought, he thought honestly and without sentiment. His passionate sympathy for the Negro found fearless expression in his years of intimacy with his mulatto housekeeper, Lydia Smith, generally accepted as his common-law wife...
...stage line, run by Wallace Beery, and the nascent Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Forced to sell his plantation, Taylor becomes involved in the general struggle for a livelihood. He sprouts a beard, learns to use a six-shooter to drive nails with, and succeeds in becoming so tough that he can lick Wallace Beery. Florence Rice appears as the owner of the state line, and provides the romantic element. However, our Bob has learned to put business before pleasure and it is only after he has settled accounts with Beery that he succumbs to the charms of Susan. Seasoned...