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Word: toughly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listen, thinking move and more of how big and tough they are at Dartmouth, and remembering stories of how they paint Harvard people green for being spies...

Author: By Mister X, | Title: Mr. X Goes to Dartmouth | 10/25/1947 | See Source »

...everything turns out okay. The Editor Tom Gerber is very impressed with a New York-writer-photog team. He asks how the trip from New York was and we say tough. He laughs, and kind of asks if there is anything...

Author: By Mister X, | Title: Mr. X Goes to Dartmouth | 10/25/1947 | See Source »

...Gerber tells me that the freshmen have to wear funny green porkies and then they have a crazy fight with the sophomores, and if the freshmen win, they don't have to wear the little hats any more. But the freshmen had tough luck this year. They lost to the sophomores. Seniors wear single breasted green coats with their class numbers sewn over the breast. The whole outfit looks something like the band at the New Ritz uses...

Author: By Mister X, | Title: Mr. X Goes to Dartmouth | 10/25/1947 | See Source »

...there is Dartmouth, when the bell rings for classes ending, it plays everything from Mr. Five by Five to the Ave Maria. I heard them both. Those students are all as big and as tough-looking as ham-and-egger pugs, and they go in for checkered shirts, and G.I. fatigue pants...

Author: By Mister X, | Title: Mr. X Goes to Dartmouth | 10/25/1947 | See Source »

Kiss of Death. A tough, scary semi-documentary about a stool pigeon; well played by Victor Mature and Richard Widmark (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 20, 1947 | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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