Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Student Councils, God knows, have a tough time. Their constituents held them responsible for everything from free beer to fund collections, yet they usually have little control over such problems. Any move that could help the bedevilled councils would be a good thing...
Winthrop made three goals in the first three minutes against the short-handed Leverett team but after that the game was fast, tough, and pretty close. Adams forfeited the remaining game to Dudley...
...rest of the starting lineup is the same as it stood against Yale. This means that John Rockwell will be the other forward, Bill Prior will handle the pivot spot, and Chip Gannon and Dick Covey will be at guard. Covey draws the tough assignment of guarding George Sella, key man in the Princeton attack. Stopping Sella would give the underdog Crimson squad a much improved chance for victory...
Havenga had not always flouted the rules. A tough veteran of the Boer War, he became Finance Minister in 1924, and budgeted so conservatively in the next 15 years that he became known as the "Minister of Surpluses." When war came in 1939, he plumped for South African neutrality, split with Prime Minister Smuts, and two years later disappeared into the political wilderness. Last spring he allied his Afrikaaner Party with the race-conscious Nationalist Party (TIME, June 7) and rode back into power when Smuts went...
Otherwise, the Crimson was helpless before the better prepared Eli wrestlers. The Blue faced more severe competition than Harvard this season and the Elis, a "rough, tough bunch of boys," according to Butch Jordan, seemed to have benefited from...