Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high scoring Red Lowman and Bill Gray the Varsity five will have a tough assignment when it faces Yale this afternoon, in a match that will be featured by the play of Vernon Struck and Larry Kelley for the two opposing teams. Teaming up with an All-American named Frank, Larry the Great was largely responsible for those two touchdowns the Big Blue football team scored last November in the Bowl...
...there's something about a royalistic weekend in New York that's self-perpetuating--you have the pleasing feeling when it's over that it won't be the last one you'll ever have. For royalists are a tough crew--they've got staying power, and the ability to roll up their sleeves; the pizazz, in short, that carried through Crecy and Agincourt and numerous Senate investigations and one Roosevelt and half of another, up to date. And what revived our flagging faith in our destiny was not the champagne or the swing time or the flash-light bulbs...
While such matters as these gripped the minds of the British Cabinet last week, a Coronation problem too tough for the Duke of Norfolk's Court of Claims to solve had to be referred for decision by King George. The problem: since the Joint Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England, Lord Ancaster, has the undoubted right to receive "His Majesty's night robe" in which the King sleeps the night before the Coronation, what is to be done in view of the fact that King George VI sleeps in pajamas? This baffled the Court of Claims, should...
...Columbia clash Tuesday in New York will be an all-important one as far as Crimson hopes go, for with this and the Yale game Harvard faces two tough clashes, while the Dartmouth team, which is in the second place tie with Fesler's team has two setups ahead they should have little difficulty taking. But regardless of how Tuesday's game in New York comes out, the Yale game here Saturday should be a thriller not even surpassed by the Penn game. The Elis will be looking for revenge as a result of their defeat Saturday by the narrowest...
...five faces a Brown team they shouldn't have too much difficulty taking. The Brains will be bring to Cambridge the type of outfit that throws long wild passes, and if they happen to be connecting in the Indoor Athletic Building tomorrow, the Crimson will be in for a tough afternoon. But in the ordinary course of events Fesler's men will win by a substantial margin...