Word: toughly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number six and seven positions, John Davis, number nine and ten man last year, and Henry Cortesi are rapidly becoming "tough players" and should give the first five a solid backing at the top of the bottom four. Both of them have improved considerably this year and appear healed for excellent seasons...
This problem at the lower end of the squad is a minor one, however, in light of the tremendous potential at the top. However, the team will have tough matches against Princeton and Navy, which have large segments of last season's squads returning...
...moment almost inevitably contingent upon some sort of parochialism, temporal, cultural, or temperamental. But a secondary difficulty, at least among students in Eastern universities, has been the fact that the conscious expression of any belief which is accepted is regarded not as realism but naivete or weakness. The tough anti-systematic skeptics have so poisoned the air in our better educational institutions that credos tend to be considered as a symptom, with all the pejorative connotations of that word. But if there is no overt expression of belief, if we are indeed what Van Wyck Brooks ('08) calls "the silent...
...dozens of movies every year. The new era features independent production in which each movie gets autonomous handling even when it is done within the framework of a big studio. The man most likely to succeed Schary: Ben Thau, a top M-G-M executive known as a tough businessman...
Giant. In a big (3 hr. 18 min.), tough picture based on Edna Ferber's best-seller about Texas, Director George Stevens digs the rowels of social satire into the soft underbelly of U.S. materialism; with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (TIME...