Search Details

Word: toughly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...stratagem whereby the ingredients were given away, and a reasonable sum was charged for transportation from bar to tables. The Rice was also headquarters of the Executive Council. In & out the doors of the Council's rooms passed tiny, wax-haired Matthew Woll of the Engravers; smart, tough Dan Tobin of the Teamsters; Dan Tracy of the Electrical Workers; smart, smooth John Coefield of the Plumbers. Still a councilman by virtue of his long service, snow-haired Secretary-Treasurer Frank Morrison ambled about in lonely dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plain Men in Houston | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...Tackles Tough...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Hard-Hitting Army Gridmen Arrive Here; 900 Cadets and 2 Mules Follow Tomorrow | 10/14/1938 | See Source »

...post already have shown that the jayvees can count on a strong center of the line. Especially is this so with centers of such near varsity material as Danny Cheever, and Tom Grover, but there are still other men, Hall, Ernie Miller, and Duff that have made the competition tough for them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Varsity Eleven Away To Slow Start for Dartmouth | 10/11/1938 | See Source »

...nationwide broadcast tough, one-eyed General Jan Syrovy said: "As soldier and as Premier ... I am passing through the saddest moment of my life, for I am fulfilling a most painful duty, a duty which for me is worse than death. . . . We were confronted with a choice between desperate and hopeless defense, which would have meant the sacrifice of our whole younger generation, their children and their wives, and acceptance of the conditions imposed on us under pressure and without war, which in their mercilessness are unexampled in history. There are smaller states than ours that lead healthy existences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Brave Retreat | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Better and less critical medicine is to say that the Harlowmen had been told all about how tough Brown was going to be, but they still could not believe it until it was too late. Psychologically the reaction was all in Brown's favor...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: PESSIMISM REIGNS AS HARLOWMEN GET SET FOR CORNELL | 10/4/1938 | See Source »

Previous | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | Next