Word: coarser
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...girth, but that is much less than some of his lieutenants have gained. The early Hitler accent was typical of the Austrian civil service class into which he was born. Educated Austrians declare it had a Czech flavor. Now he has a more cultivated speech. The voice is noticeably coarser and Herr Hitler, despite the assurances of six attending physicians, is still worried about cancer of the throat...
...affected my game in a way I really cannot describe. Perhaps it is a feeling of obligation to the public instead of the old idea of simply hitting the ball. ... I shall do better when I get acquainted with your greens. . . . The sand in these bunkers is heavier and coarser grained than the sort I am accustomed to at home. ... I fancy a heavier niblick might help...
...last Congress many legislators criticized the New Deal privately and a few openly, but none flung coarser vituperation at the White House than Senator Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota. His favorite accusation was that the New Deal was trying to muzzle the Press. Last week the blind Senator, egged on by Tory publishers, produced a new and startling charge: The Administration not only planned to censor the Associated Press, United Press and Hearst news services, but to start its own official press service to supplant them, after the fashion of Soviet Russia's Tass...
...attempt of Minneapolis to capture fame as the Kellogg hometown is perfectly comprehensible to one who daily witnesses the editorial rapaciousness of the coarser of the Twin Cities...