Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second man on the varsity delegation, Cal Place, is one of the toughest match players in college squash and will prove very tough to handle for any seeded player he runs across. Place's easy three-game win over Yale's Harvey Sloane, who is eighth seeded in the tournament, is evidence of Place's role as a potential up-setter of the seedings...
...finest private ingatherings in America, was sold this week for $3,250,000. Made up mostly of French impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, the collection was doomed when the Robinsons were divorced last August and the California courts directed that their communal property be equally divided. But Movie Tough-Guy Robinson, unable to part with all his pictures ("I would like to keep them all"), held on to 14 of them. The balance of the collection-58 paintings and one bronze-went to Manhattan's M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. A mystery remained. Nobody would say whether Knoedler...
Giant. A big (3 hr. 18 min.). tough picture based on Edna Ferber's bestseller about Texas, directed by George Stevens; with Rock Hudson. Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (TIME...
...these were not the only reasons given. One of the arguments in support of the new building was that it would provide "a place where we could cook dinner for the boys." We are entirely in sympathy with the change in feminine values from the tough career woman of the twenties to the current idealization of domesticity. But we still pay enough heed to romantic love, to be able to do without this proof of homemaking skill, at least until graduation...
...fifth singles position, Charlie MacVeagh played hard, tough squash for the first two close games, and finally wore Ron Ragen down to take the last one handily, winning the match 18-16, 18-17, and 15-9. MacVeagh made use of his excellent low, cracked crosscourt to keep his opponent constantly on the move...