Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very complicated plot is unwoven in a fairly smooth manner, with only an occasional rough spot. There are a few places which are rather improbable and unconvincing, to say the least. This is especially so in the final act, but on the whole everything goes off well enough...
...diamond merchant offered $80,000 for the stone, was refused by the prospector, who seemed to know a thing or two himself. (Thus in 1853 the Star of the South [254 carats and up to last week the largest diamond ever discovered in Brazil] was sold in the rough for $200,000. Jewelers who cut it down to a flawless, polished stone of 125 carats sold that to H. H. the Gaekwar of Baroda for $400,000, also sold other parts of the Star of the South for good prices.) In Amsterdam last week miserable striking diamond cutters went back...
Save where the cliffs thrust through Their rough gray shoulders, scorning...
Jane Parker still seems to be more pleased than frightened. Her abductor does not disillusion her. Although he can only converse with monkeys and is, aside from his ability as a gymnast, convincingly subhuman, Tarzan shows a surprising grasp of the niceties of romantic love. He is only rough once, when he seizes Jane Parker's handkerchief, tears it in half and gives a disagreeable grunt...
...strongest winds over the basin are from the northwest, and owing to the width of the basin these winds frequently make the water so rough that the waves rebound from the wall to a considerable distance. This condition has been found very unsatisfactory by boating and rowing interests, and these individuals and associations have been strongly desirous of an improvement in the basin as regards rowing conditions. The treatment of the new shoreline is expected to break up the waves and materially decrease the cross-chop existing at present...