Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill was still a long way from being law. On the other side of Congress, Senator Robert Taft's almost equally tough labor proposition had been flattened into a pancake by his own committee. The Senate would be more cautious in its labor legislation; in fact, some members of the House voted as they did because they felt secure in that belief. But the House's impressive vote also strengthened Taft, who now might be able to restore much of his bill. But whatever happened-a compromise between the two houses, a possible presidential veto even...
...Brooklyn, rough-tough Johnny Torrio, ex-Chicago bootleg king and Al Capone's sometime mentor, who quit the rackets after he was shot up in 1925, heaved a big sigh of relief. At his solicitation, the FBI had finally rounded up two men accused of sending him a threatening letter last September...
There were other auguries of more democracy; the Kuomintang announced dissolution of the party's own secret police-the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics. (Some tough non-statisticians would be looking for new jobs.) This week Chiang Kai-shek agreed to delete a sentence in the new Organic Law which would have made him-as President-responsible only to the Kuomintang...
...evident ascendancy of the Army in making Palestine policy. General G. H. A. Macmillan, backed up strongly by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, had pressed for the executions as necessary to the prestige of British authority. Jewish terrorism played into the hands of the Army's "tough" policy, helped it overcome the more moderate line of Palestine's kindly Governor Sir Alan Cunningham...
...small, is no light reading for summer afternoons. It is mostly a series of lectures (delivered at Yale) on teaching science to undergraduates who do not intend to become professional scientists. Dr. Conant's idea: illustrate the "scientific method" by citing historical cases in which science has solved tough problems. Science, he believes, cannot be a mere bulk of static knowledge, however large: "Almost by definition, science moves ahead...