Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November, after General Grant had reluctantly sanctioned this maneuver, General Sherman assured everyone that he would "make Georgia howl," and began his historic March To The Sea. A month later, when the March ended at Savannah, Georgians had ample reason to howl and howl they did. By the tough general's own conservative estimate, the damage done amounted to $100,000,000. It was South Carolina's turn to howl next. General Sherman headed his troop: north and began destroying things right & left. By the time the capital city of Columbia was sacked and burned, South Carolinians were...
...West. Involving numerous changes from the style that Whiteside-coached Crimson crews had rowed in years previous, some of Bolles' associates had anticipated that he would have quite a lot of trouble bringing this new technique to Harvard. The general impression was that his system was too tough to teach the boys in the East; but the difficulties did not materialize and apparently the men are thriving under the new system. As for Bolles, he won't admit that it is tougher; "the way we row now is more logical than any other...
...heaviest. I think good crews just run in cycles. We have happened to have some good material out at Washington. Navy had its run, you remember, and so did Cornell. All you have to have is two lean Freshman years and then you're in for a tough time...
...Ribbentrops. she the heiress of a German champagne family, he an ex-salesman in England of not only rare German wines but also best Scotch whiskey. Intimate are the Hohenzollern grandsons of Wilhelm II with the von Ribbentrops; intimate too are many radical Nazi party members of the tough type who ordinarily do not get on with bemonocled German bourgeoisie and intimate are von Ribbentrop and Hitler. Last August, when von Ribbentrop's appointment as Ambassador was announced, he had been running for two years in Berlin an amazing personal suite of offices which was known...
Ahead of the first boat lies a tough schedule, opening on April 24 with the Compton Cup Regatta at Princeton. Columbia, Tech, Cornell, Syracuse, Navy, Penn and Yale are also in the offing...