Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cleveland. Reform Republican Mayor Harold Hitz Burton was embarrassed when his Democratic opponent, Engineer John O. McWilliams, accused him of collecting a "slush fund" to swing votes in tough wards. The Board of Elections, investigating, found that Mayor Burton had spent $12,860 more than he had reported, bringing his total to $41,212. Cried Engineer McWilliams, who reported an expenditure of $4,700: "The Mayor is carriying deception and falsification even into his campaign." Mayor Burton's campaign treasurer explained that he had borrowed and supplied the $12,860 personally. Betting odds continued to favor Mayor Burton...
...this colony's landed proprietors, while French in citizenship, are of Spanish. Italian. South American or even German birth. Almost to a man they are more conservative than the Communist. Socialist and moderate Radical Socialist parties which in coalition support the Chautemps Cabinet. Notoriously German are many tough mercenaries of the famed French Foreign Legion. The natives are Mohammedan, excellent fighters, and their chiefs are even more anti-Left than the landed proprietors. Why then should not a French commander of much the calibre of General Franco arise in North Africa and ultimately secure in France results as extensive...
Though the Somerville Jumbos are often too tough to please their opposition, Coach Jack Carr's eleven rates a pregame favorite on account of its increasing offensive power as reflected in a 4 goal score against Dartmouth...
Princeton, Oct. 26--As the Tiger eleven reaches the half-way point in its 1937 schedule, it settles down to take on four tough opponents in a row, starting next Saturday with Harvard; and winding up with Dartmouth, Yale and Navy...
...present there are only two men who came up from last year's Freshman team--Torbert Macdonald and Bill Healey. It is admitted, of course, that Harlow, does not favor taking on sophomores and that they would have a tough time getting onto the Varsity roster, but two on the squad seems like a poor showing...