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Word: toughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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This afternoon at 3 o'clock the University soccer team will meet Amherst on the field behind the Business School. Harvard has won its last five games, defeating Worcester Polytechnic, Syracase, Bridgewater Normal, Dartmouth and Northeastern. The Amherst team is reported to have unusual strength, and will furnish tough opposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDEFEATED SOCCER TEAM WILL ENCOUNTER AMHERST | 11/1/1929 | See Source »

...TOUGH LUCK BEING THE SAD STORY OF A SOCIETY GIRL

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Liberty Liberties? | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...some detail, the editor explained how "Tough Luck" was acquired. It had been sold to Liberty, he said, through one T. Everett Harre, literary agent and "ghost writer," for $750.* For proof he displayed the original manuscript which bore the signature of Miss Oelrichs on its first and last pages. "Harré paid Miss Oelrichs for the article, giving her his personal check for $200," Mr. Annenberg said. "It assigns for that amount all rights in the article." Sighed Mr. Harre: "It's a tough business, this ghost-writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Liberty Liberties? | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...tough defense of Syracuse was only penetrated once, two minutes before the end of the final period, by H. H. Broadbent '32, Crimson forward. Broadbent has been a stellar forward and bulwark of the Harvard team thus far this season, scoring three out of the team's four goals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCER TEAM NOSES OUT SYRACUSE IN CLOSE GAME | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...exciting picture. The illusion of reality is strong when the theatre reverberates with roaring airplanes, staccato machine guns. Ralph Graves is a vacillating, blundering flyer who girds up his loins to win Lila Lee. Jack Holt, somewhat aged since his svelte days with the cinema mounted police, is a tough sergeant. Into the picture creeps propaganda about the U. S. |occupation of Nicaragua, especially when the Nicaraguan president is shown talking about U. S. good-Samaritanism. Best shot: The squadron taking off at dawn in pursuit of the Nicaraguan bandit Lobo (Sandino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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