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Word: roughed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extremely rough and poorly played game, the Harvard Junior Varsity basketball team yesterday defeated the Northeastern Jayvee Quintet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAYVEE AND FRESHMEN HOOPSTERS WIN EASILY | 2/23/1933 | See Source »

...total consumption of motor fuel in 1929 amounted to 409,240,000 bbl. of 42 gal. each. This quantity would require [a blend] of 20,000,000 bbl. of alcohol, obtainable, on a rough estimate, from about 40,000,000 tons of farm products or byproducts, damaged crops which at an average cost of say about $10 per ton would yield the farmers in this country about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 20, 1933 | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

Last week another ship stood at the head of the Cranwell runway. Like the first one, it was a Fairey-Napier. But it was equipped with improvements learned from the previous experiences. A "robot" steering device was installed. Running gear was made double-strong for rough landings. A cabin hatch was cut for observations of the stars. Fuel tanks were built to hold 1,000 gal. In the cabin was a bed for the pilot off watch. Experts spent months in plotting the course for favorable topography and weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Wings Over Africa | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

Craigenputtock and Wilheim Meister--the rough, wild, churlish island upon which Johnson drew the carriage shade before an indignant Boswell, and the balanced periods of a great German classicist--these were the opposing forces which shaped the life of Thomas Carlyle. The land tore the veils from his vision, made him a poet and a seer--the other involved him in a nebulous World-Idea and a style of tortured courage. Never did one man, and a lone Scotchman, strive to embody in himself ideals so contradictory--guessing like a child about Mirabeau, about Lafayette, and guessing rightly, but struggling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/18/1933 | See Source »

...just the right proportions. Philip Bourneuf does a masterly job of hypocritical piety as Elder Daniels. Aldrich Bowker, though erring occasionally on the side of the obvious, makes for the most part a delightfully comic sheriff. The rest of the cast, clear down to the twelfth member of the rough and ready jury, is eminently acceptable...

Author: By T. B. Oc., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/16/1933 | See Source »

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