Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captain Graham Taylor of the Crimson skiers was as usual the mainstay of the team, and copped second place in the individual competition. Taylor scored the only first for the Crimson when he beat out MIT's Andy Wessel in the tough six mile cross-country...
...tough penalty slapped on Gerry Genn dropped the Crimson to third place in the slalom, but the mishap was smoothed over since Yale wound up in fourth place. The powerful MIT team which had begun to roll by this time, took an easy first, and Williams popped up with second...
...tough week for magazines...
Last week, the Daily Worker announced that the A.Y.D. had dissolved itself. One big reason, perhaps the main one, was that A.Y.D. was finding it too tough to get new members, or even to hold on to old ones. It had shrunk to a handful of active chapters. There was nothing left to do but change names again. Soon, as A.Y.D. promised, U.S. colleges would discover a new "Marxist youth organization" on their campuses, "carrying forward A.Y.D.'s . . . militant activity in the interests of young people." But this time it might be harder: Communist fronts no longer seemed...
Laurie Rossbach was the most valuable man for the Bunnies winning a tough 50-yard freestyle race. Frank Manheim of the last place Deacons contributed the best time of the meet, 31.2 in the 50-yard backstroke...