Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...withdrawal of the Columbia team from the freshman race due to an out-break of flu left the Yardlings in a tough, two-way contest with Pennsylvania. That they finally won out, 26-31, may be ascribed largely to superior depth...
...decision to cover Yankee Stadium with four color cameras made a tough job even tougher. Using six black-and-white cameras in Milwaukee, the same crew achieved more fluent coverage from a greater variety of angles. Though the vast majority of viewers saw even the colorcasts in the black-and-white version, color demanded cameras three times as bulky (and balky), and the engineers had to "paint" constantly with their control knobs to cope with changes in lighting and color temperature. Their pains reproduced some vivid ballpark atmosphere. The grass sometimes turned Kentucky blue and the shaded areas filled with...
...TOUGH POLICY of ICC is starting to trip up accident-prone trucking lines. After threatening to ban six other truckers (TIME, Sept. 16), commission ordered one-year probation for Kansas City's big Riss & Co., whose 500-plus interstate trucks from 1951 to 1953 "were involved in 1,200 accidents resulting in shocking total of 51 deaths and 501 injuries." ICC's ultimatum: Riss must drastically improve safety record or be barred from highways...
Capitalist Shangri-La. Bitter over high taxes, Government interference, the scorn of intellectuals and the reproof of religious leaders, the really tough-minded tycoons gradually withdraw from society to a hideout in the mountains. There, under the leadership of a mysterious physicist named John Gait, they await the fall of the old, Socialist-crippled, soft and degenerate order, so they can build a new society. The mountain-ringed capitalist Shangri-La sounds like a prospectus for an exclusive, upper-middle-class suburb in Westchester, and is dominated by a slim granite column upholding a solid-gold dollar sign. (Readers...
With all players back in the lineup, the Crimson has a better chance against an Amherst eleven, which has put up a tough resistance, though it lost to Harvard the last two years. An advantage for Amherst may be that it will play on its own field, which is smaller than the Harvard field...