Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like sacks of potatoes," you are not likely to have many beaus. Such was the case of Lulu Belle Kimel of Lexington, N. C. Though she was bursting with health and warm-hearted to a degree, the boys did not consider her the village belle. James Godwin, 19, a tough and knowing High Point boy whom they brought to the jail two months ago for beating up and robbing his grandfather, seemed to feel differently about Lulu Belle...
...Hungary succeed between them in grabbing the eastern end of Czechoslovakia and fortifying it as a bulwark against the ultimately scheduled German push to the East. The whole Munich settlement situation in Czechoslovakia was fluid. Ancient nationality claims and feuds boiled up anew somewhere almost every hour in this tough corner of Eastern Europe where every little old people is supertough. So far as Germany was concerned, chances favored mutual agreement to abandon the holding of plebiscites in the area sketched at Munich and direct occupation by Nazidom of substantially that which Adolf Hitler drew on his map at Godesberg...
...West, the University of California, last year's Pacific Coast Conference champion and Rose Bowl winner, having lost six of its 1937 team by graduation, looked as though it might have a tough struggle defending its title against Southern California, Oregon or Stanford...
...scores & scores of countries from Finland to Zanzibar. He studied cotton growing in Egypt, bamboo culture in Japan, water chestnuts in China, hops in Bohemia, nuts in England. He brought avocados from Hawaii, mangoes from Bombay, onions from Egypt, mangosteens (a pineapple-apricot-orange-flavored fruit with a dark, tough rind) from Queensland and Java, chayotes ("a delicious vegetable ... of the cucumber family") from Jamaica, chaulmoogra (a leprosy remedy) from Burma. In 1906-07, Fairchild and his staff distributed some 800 tung-oil trees (oil used in varnishes and paints) to pioneer growers in the U. S. South and Southwest...
...than half his book to the decades before 1870 when west of the Mississippi was the U. S. frontier. Matthew B. (for nothing) Brady was then the affluent kingpin of Eastern photographers, organizer of the most ambitious photographic survey of the century-the Civil War in 7.000 plates. No tough daguerreotypist who trundled over the Great Plains in that period could afford such scope, though from the Gold Rush on, photographers went along with the pioneers, the troops, the railroads. A disheartening revelation of the Taft book is how much of their unpretentious but now invaluable work has been carelessly...