Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Memphis in time to get a night train back to Chicago. He paid the entire expense of the trip himself. He lost one day from his Chicago paper, but his good sportsmanship and courtesy to the Louisiana newspaper publishers and editors will not soon be forgotten. Behind that tough exterior you paint in such bitter colors, he evidently has a heart...
...this time the forces of Generalissimo Franco, consisting of tough Spanish Foreign Legionnaires, non-Spanish speaking Moors who had put on layers of sweaters against the high-altitude cold, and regular Spanish Army troops had advanced into the suburbs of Madrid over a terrain on which battling females of the Red Militia had abandoned vanity cases, high-heeled slippers and powder puffs. This proletarian resistance was brave but it was scarcely war. When a wave of advancing Moors were suddenly faced by Red machine guns which popped up out of a trench they simply flung themselves prostrate and waited calmly...
...group of Philharmonic patrons who canceled their subscriptions when Germany's Wilhelm Furtwängler was named Toscanini's successor (see p. 51 ), was first to restore his gift when Furtwängler withdrew. Short, stocky, with a great black bush of hair. Founder Hirschmann plays a tough game of tennis, has "three hobbies: music, long tramps in the woods, helping penniless musicians...
...Columbus, Assistant State Director of Education E. N. Dietrich glumly observed: "Springfield has already received its full amount of State funds. . . . That's tough luck...
...Crimson contingent will have an edge over some of the teams by virtue of their having run there a week ago in the Triangular run. Over that course too they ran one of their best races as a group over the admittedly tough layout which goes up and up to form one of the hilliest routes any of the teams entered will be forced...