Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last September, Wrest Point and Annapolis agreed to disagree about football eligibility rules, scheduled a game for 1932. Equally unexpected last week was the news of another football reconciliation- between Princeton and Harvard, whose falling out in 1926 followed a game that Harvard thought was too rough, and a particularly rude issue of the Harvard Lampoon. Athletic Directors William J. Bingham of Harvard and Thurston J. Davies of Princeton issued a terse joint statement: "Arrangements have been completed for two football games between Harvard and Princeton, the first to be played in Cambridge on Nov. 3, 1934, the second...
Inquiry at Lehman Hall reveals that the system of inter-House eating has not as yet been extensively used of some 1800 undergraduates served, in the House dining halls every day, a rough average of 70 men patronize Houses other than their...
...construction work in connection with the building of the addition to the Esplanade has caused an unfavorable condition for racing in the Charles River Basin and forced the crews to such a change in their course. In the past rough water in the Basin has caused the postponement of many regattas...
...Russian to obtain. Last week the bars went down a little. To increase the State's stock of silver, Torgsin was authorized to accept silver plate and old jewelry as valuta. Next day Torgsin stores were jammed with hungry, ill-clad natives, eager to swap silver for rough clothing and such luxuries, dear to Russians, as smoked salmon, butter, caviar, vodka. Prices were steep. It took a kilogram of silver (2 3/5 lb.), worth about $7.80 in Manhattan, to buy one pair of Torgsin shoes. Two pounds of butter cost 137 grams of silver with other prices in proportion...
With their garments slit, their locks tousled, an orthodox Jewish family mourns its dead by sitting shivah-in stocking feet, on rough boxes instead of chairs-during the first seven days. For eleven months after the death there is daily Kaddish, a prayer in the synagog, usually led by a son or daughter of the deceased. Some rabbis chant a routine, blanket Kaddish at the end of services, for all the congregation's dead. After eleven months the deceased is presumed to be redeemed by these prayers, to pass on from Gehenna (Hell) to Heaven. On the twelvemonth...