Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jones of the Globe: "This is Harvard's first crucial game, while Pennsylvania has had two tough ones. The outcome is problematical. It will be a close game all the way, and though Harvard may pull a couple of touchdowns, it's really a toss...
...tough teams will tangle this afternoon when Adams meets Kirkland. The Gold Coasters have a record of one win and one loss, having beaten Eliot and lost to Dudley. The Deacons beat Leverett and tied Dunster, and are rated favorites...
Prancy as a Blue Grass colt, "Happy" Chandler is a natural politician. In politics he has the easy grace of Joe DiMaggio coasting under a long fly-ball, the same talent of making the tough ones look easy. To him handshaking is not a nuisance but a passionate delight. He knows the first name (and even the children's names) of nearly every person in Kentucky of voting age-not just because it's good political business, but because he likes to know. To him speechmaking is no grave statement of solemn issues, but a chance to play...
...been its construction unions. Now the A. F. of L. membership base is shifting and widening. Biggest gainer-and biggest union in the Federation-is Dan Tobin's Teamsters, up 40,800 to 350,000. Coming up fast are the butchers, laundry workers, operating engineers, retail clerks, hatters. Tough, clever George E. Browne's stagehands (up 14,200 to 42,000) lost their fight to hog all theatrical performers (TIME, Aug. 21) but they have just won another and vital struggle to keep A. F. of L. supreme in Hollywood studios, downing C. I. O. in a Labor...
...Crimson booters open their season tomorrow afternoon against a tough Williams eleven, and Coach Jack Carr has spent the past week giving the finishing touches to his team whose inexperience showed up so glaringly last Saturday in the practice game...