Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With three scrimmages behind the squad already, the Crimson Varsity eleven is rounding slowly into shape for its first encounter of the 1944 season against Tufts September 16 at Soldiers Field. Coach Henry Lamar has planned a tough three weeks practice schedule to prepare his aggregation for the opening game...
Mechanics. The mechanics of transition could not be accomplished by a snap of the fingers. The War Department ordered all theater commanders to retrain noncombat personnel in a tough, twelve-week course. Conversely, rear-area units raided of their physically fit were allowed to be temporarily over strength so that combat veterans, taking over, could be trained for their new jobs...
...bloom properly when transplanted from Benton, Calif, to the South Pacific. He does, by wiping out a machine-gun nest with a bulldozer, and comes home a hero even to his wife. Mr. Winkle has its moving moments, but the total effect is about as convincing as if professional tough guy Edward G. Robinson were to play the part of the mild little bank clerk-which he does...
...legion of World War II veterans soon to return to U.S. campuses, and they and the university are having a hard time adjusting to each other. Other colleges and other veterans appeared last week to be solving the problem more readily, but for all of them it is tough...
Together. Charles and Mary Beard went off to a spacious old colonial house near New Milford, Conn., settled down to running a dairy farm and remaking the American mind. Each of them turned out individual books. Friendly, tough-minded Mary Beard brought labor into scholarly history (A Short History of the American Labor Movement) at a time (1920) when the subject belonged almost exclusively to pamphleteers. She wrote of women {Woman's Work in Municipalities, America Through Women's Eyes, etc.) without feminist ax grinding. Over the years kindly, ruddy-cheeked Charles Beard achieved the stature...