Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last fortnight California's William Gibbs McAdoo, facing a tough four-corner fight, was able to pull an encouraging "Dear Mac" letter from his pocket...
...Lewis (and everybody else in the country) has lately watched circumstances affirm his conviction that President Martin would have to get tough or get out of U. A. W. A. A treasury depleted by unemployment and unpaid dues; a new outbreak of outlaw strikes in General Motors, several parts plants; the tactical weaknesses inherent for any union in a period of widespread layoffs; substantial concessions to management in contract renewals; a recent and violent intra-union factional flareup-all this impelled Mr. Martin to seek out unionism's new Great Father in Washington...
...flavor of its own is ingredients like the six young toughies from Dead End (Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Bernard Punsley, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell) and a dialogue script that is often spicier than Dead End's. That some day this gang would wind up in a tough cinema reformatory was entirely conceivable. That it would reform them as thoroughly as Crime School does is not so easy to believe...
...classmates were spoiled a bit for a tough world...
Even if the Crimson nine should take the Cornell game, they meet tough opposition in the Columbia double-header here tomorrow. While the Lions have only two victories in six starts, they are the only team that has defeated Cornell this season...