Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result of the basketball game; but there has been little day-dreaming around the pool about this particular contest anyway. The Gymnasts took M.I.T. and Tufts over the hoops easily, and dropped decisions only to Yale (a comparatively close 31-44 meet on opening day) and a tough Williams team. The chief threat here seems to be a backstroker named Whittin, who has turned in some pretty fine times this year...
Journalism is a tough field to crack and doesn't pay much when one does, five newspapermen agreed last night at the Placement Office's first conference. But there's "as little monotony in it as in any possible...
This year's Gymnast squad has played a lengthy, tough schedule, whose 23 games have carried it across the continent and Eack in a none-too-happy Christmas time jaunt...
...When three-quarters of the original crews had been lost, and the rest were losing their minds, Major Van Luppen, the commanding officer, was recalled to the States. He was enough of a ham to make a farewell speech. But when he said, "We've become something very tough that Heinie doesn't care to tangle with when he doesn't have to," there were guffaws. (They approved when he said drinks were on the house...
Above all, "The Treasure" is a unique Hollywood product. The cliches of romantic interest have almost been avoided; the movie has violent action, but for other purposes than immediate sensation; both Humphrey Bogart, who has been playing the same stock tough man for the last five or six years, and Walter Huston, whose last important part was in "Duel in the Sun," are able to do some original acting. The result is a movie with some power, a movie different from anything Hollywood has previously produced...