Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Gray published his first book, New World Picture. It described current developments in physics from the inside of the atom to the bounds of the universe, traced their beginnings back to the stagnant period at the end of the 19th Century, won the approval even of such tough-minded critics as Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Review. In The Advancing Front of Science, Gray does not confine himself to physics. It is, he says, "an attempt to report news rather than summarize history." In it readers will find such various nuggets as the heredity...
Meanwhile Union had missed two industrial revolutions in its business: 1) from easily-torn sulphite bags to sulphate bags (made of tough tan papers called "Kraft" by the trade); 2) from expensive northern spruce to cheap southern pine for paper pulp. After the War when every competitor was moving south to use cheap slash pine, Union still sat in a sleepy, War-fattened lethargy. In 1928 it was so grossly out of line that it actually built a sulphate mill in the spruce forests of Tacoma. Next year this white elephant was shut down at a loss...
...clock: They've started.... Coming pretty slowly at first--who's going to be the first out? Here he is--Wesley Harrison Lowell, Jr. That red-haired, tough-looking baby almost beat him to it. Lowell was in such a rush he forget the name of his city on his Phillips Brooks card...
...Freshman schedule includes six games, all of them tough. The season opens on October 9 with the annual Exeter game and follows on successive Saturdays with games with Worcester Academy at Worcester, Andover at Andover, Brown, Dartmouth at Dartmouth, and Yale...
...tough question of the atomic architecture inside the molecule has yielded somewhat to the discovery that it must conform to mathematical limitations grouped under "stoichiometrical law." Stanley's tobacco mosaic virus, for example, was found to be not a long, thin chain but roughly egg-shaped...