Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Things were tough all over. While he was away from home, Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr.'s eleven-room Maryland manse burned to the ground. Estimated loss: $100,000. John L. Lewis' maiden daughter, Kathryn, 35, who lives in wooded country not far from Sing Sing, N.Y., got a permit to keep a pistol...
...Dear Mr. Winton: I appreciate that the tires are made of real rubber five-eighths of an inch thick. . . . But I might run over a railway spike or something else that would pierce even their tough resistance. In such case, what should I do? No one [in Vermont] can suggest how a repair might be effected...
...Andy Carstensen at center and Emil Hudak at guard--Captain Chip Coleman was moved to forward--has shown surprising strength. Dartmouth gave Holy Cross a dogged battle before bowing by 11 points last week, and held league-leading Columbia to a five-point victory at Hanover Saturday night. Always tough on its home floor, the Big Green has lost only six games in ten years on native grounds...
...Tough as the problem looked, it was the kind of problem U.N. had been created to face. Last year, in Persia and elsewhere, direct clashes involving the Great Powers themselves put U.N. on the spot. Here was a much smaller, if equally distressing problem. If U.N. could not contribute to the solution of the Palestine problem, what could? And what would U.N. do about any of the disputes over houses and castles that flared or smoldered all over the world...
...Tough All Over. In his careful way, Ben Fine had documented what most educators and many citizens already knew: that U.S. schools are in a bad way. He had piled up some awesome facts & figures on the teacher exodus (350,000 since 1941), the teacher shortage (70,000), the number of substandard teachers (125,000), their generally low quality (one-third didn't go beyond high school), and the low teacher pay (U.S. average: $37 a week). But like most statistics, these were bloodless. The dismaying story of U.S. education came alive only when he told what...