Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That economic position is a fair rough estimate of inherent ability is indicated by the fact that business owners and executives, per ten thousand married males in the population at large are roughly 110 times as productive in business leaders as the unskilled laboring class and 12 times as productive of leaders as the class of skilled laborers. The farming classes are producing progressively less leaders and this decrease is being made up by an increase in the sons of business men rather than by an allround increase in the contributions of other classes...
...National Horse Show occupied their boxes at Madison Square Garden as usual last week but there were times when they seemed to shiver slightly. At times the 47th show looked like a rodeo, at times like a sham cavalry battle. The Garden shook with the clatter of rough riders, trick riding, polo, mounted basketball, and police squads knocking one another's hats off with sticks. The National Horse Show Association's new president, J. Spencer...
Snip-snip-snip-snip. Herbert Hoover was cutting up into paragraphs a rough draft of a campaign speech. His scissors made the only sound in the quiet of the Lincoln Study. Over a large table he spread out his cuttings. He picked up a paragraph on balancing the Budget and a paragraph on Democratic extravagance, pinned them together. Likewise joined were paragraphs on New Zealand butter and tariff protection, on Democratic campaign tactics and a newspaper clipping of 50 years ago. Thus the separate paragraphs were being woven together into an oratorical tapestry when an aide knocked on the study...
...woman hiker, who found that by means of it she was able to do a fortnight's tramping in the Austrian Alps without any additional equipment. A special feature of the outfit is the tin-opener, which has been especially constructed so that it leaves no rough edges on the tin. which may afterwards be used as an extra saucepan. The tent pole can also be used as a walking-stick...
...dukes and dowager queens drop away in dead faints. Maurice is a tailor this time and the princess, Jeanette MacDonald, is only a relic French one. The plot is the usual one and the actor is the same, with the varnish and the pronunciation only slightly marred by rough American usage...