Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earth depends upon radiations from the Sun. Secretary Abbot is certain that if meteorologists know enough facts about the solar radiations they can make long-time predictions about Earth's weather. Years of solar observations have demonstrated definite cycles in the Sun's emanations, have made possible rough predictions of long summers, cold winters, good radio reception...
...Brentwood, where he had long been respected as a manufacturer and a member of the school board. All around him was hostility. In Mississippi County waited a sheriff with an insanity warrant. In Cape Girardeau County waited 800 vigilantes determined that he should hunt no lions there. Over the rough roads of Scott County bounced the truck, stopping now and then while Hunter Wright begged shelter at a farm house. Always there was only one bed. "It's making me look like an inhuman ogre," cried...
...living conditions here and abroad, in which he is particularly interested, Lipson said: "There is, I suppose, a feeling that high thinking goes best with plain living, or that the student for whom life is made perhaps a shade too pleasant, is not being best fitted for the rough and tumble of the world outside. Personally, I do not share this view. For one thing, I believe that it is eminently desirable that men should be able to enjoy during their student days, which are usually the happiest period in their lives, the comforts and amenities of modern civilization...
Neither team was able to score in the two overtime periods, though the play was fast and rough...
Dare we look into the future if this graduation from the collegiate bourgeoisie to a higher sophistication goes on? Will our beloved Stanford rough drop into the limbo of forgotten might? Will we see no more paper airplanes sailing in the Assembly Hall? For surely a freshman smooth enough to resist the attacks of those veteran Encina salesmen could never become rough enough to go unshaven and smoke a cigar...