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Word: toughly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tough land under the corn mister: She has changed the bone in the cheeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Changelings | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

Keep the skis and wax for some time in a warm room before waxing. Rub on a tough coating over the running surface of the skis, and smooth it down with the palm of the hand, rubbing it in one direction only; that is, from point to back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKIERS FLOCK TO NORTHLAND . . . . . . . . SNOW VARIES AT SKI CENTERS | 12/10/1937 | See Source »

...third man in red got around to the rear of the wagon and fought his way inside. He counted one sack of mail and six suitcases and then backed out, not before being bitten by a particularly tough pioneer...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Ten Students, in Indian Garb, Raid Big Pioneer Expedition | 12/10/1937 | See Source »

...arrive they must, for there are some very tough encounters in the offing. Northeastern comes to town for the second game, and if her undefeated team last year is any indication, there is heavy weather ahead for Stahley's cagers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/7/1937 | See Source »

Serenade begins when tough, embittered John Howard Sharp, once an opera star, now a singer in tenth-rate Mexico City night clubs, gets involved in an argument with a bullfighter over a prostitute, takes her home, is invited to act as bookkeeper and chauffeur for a disreputable hotel in the steamy coast town of Acapulco. As he is driving to Acapulco with the owlish, observant Juana, a storm drives them into one of Mexico's closed churches, where Howard builds a fire, cooks meals, despite Juana's fears of sacrilege. While the candles blow out, thunder rolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pulp Classic | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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