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Word: toughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury Department, looking for new ways to sell war bonds, tried tough talk to sell War Loan VI. Hattie Carnegie, Manhattan couturier, went the Treasury one better. In windows usually devoted to high-priced chichi escapism, Hattie Carnegie tried realism. Her shocker set off protests: one customer complained that after seeing the display, she was unable to eat her lunch at the superswank Colony Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL,WYOMING: Six & Seven | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

...says the Army-Navy classic coming up soon is the chief topic of conversation among the serviceman now that the election is over, and as far as he can see it's a toss-up. "Navy has lost a couple of tough ones this fall. But I think Army's Earl Blaik is the better coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Don Forte, 1942 Grid Star, Back from Atlantic Action | 11/21/1944 | See Source »

...come to the conclusion that they weren't kidding when they said this was tough. The profs seem to want us to go "all out" study. We're still trying to figure out how we got caught in this mess of Phi Botes and straight A boys, but we haven't gone so far as to question anyone...

Author: By Pearson Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 11/21/1944 | See Source »

Expressionists. But as he aged he produced tough, vivid pictures in a manner entirely his own. His subjects were Maine mountains, fish, flowers, ropes, shells, and harsh, haunting portraits, painted from memory, of men who were his spiritual heroes. Among the Museum's most striking Hartleys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Maine Man | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

Bischoff, only temporarily foiled, soon returned from Berlin, this time with a tough SS trooper and a formal paper demanding the surrender of the ants. The Professor announced that, since Father Wasmann was born in the Tyrol, the ants were German property. The burgomaster retorted that Father Wasmann's birth place was actually in Italian territory. He appealed to the quisling Minister of Fine Arts at The Hague. Said the Minister: "Give up the ants." So the Professor carried them off to Berlin, after ostentatiously signing a receipt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Rape of the Ants | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

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