Word: roughed
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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...
...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...
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...
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...
...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...