Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stockade outside town. Governor Herring had just promised to lift martial law in Plymouth County when at Des Moines, 160 mi. away, fresh farm trouble sprouted to plague the good name of Iowa. Meeting in the cattle pavilion of the State Fair Grounds, the Farmers' Holiday Association, under rough-spoken Milo Reno, raucously voted another farm strike May 13. That it. like last year's, would end in violence and failure was the foregone conclusion of all but the most disgruntled Iowa farmers. The conservative American Farm Bureau Federation surveyed rural sentiment in eleven States, reported that only...
Next thing Judge Bradley knew he was being yanked off his bench and dragged out to the court house lawn. Dozens of rough hands were mauling...
...from the familiar "From Beowulf to Thomas Hardy," covers more or less completely the whole of English literature to the end of the nineteenth century. The emphasis is on the recognized great names, and the most of minor writers are disregarded. Little historical knowledge of the periods beyond a rough approximation of dates is required. The two section meetings each week are devoted mostly to elucidation of the meaning and significance of the selections read; they vary, as in all such courses, with the quality of the section men. On the whole, the English 28 staff is anything but inspiring...
...this, a free country? To--with Harvard." The trance began. Later Walter asked Code to put the "doughnut," an illuminated paper disc, on the table. In doing so, Code touched the psychic structure in the center of the table. "It felt like the fieshy part of a and, rather rough," the report says of this. A megaphone was pushed into Damon's lap; the discrattied around the table. Walter commented, "My sakes, the child is born...
...week Col. Ruppert so stated, and its followers throughout the land then knew surely that Baseball was at hand again. The season opens April 12. After their month of limbering, exercising, exhibition games in Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and California, it was possible last week to cast up a rough account of how the 16 major teams stand this year...