Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cents a dance, pansies and rough guys...
Claim defenders of the Old American Game: 1) No one has ever been killed at water polo. 2) There have never been serious injuries. 3) The players do not think it is too rough; complaints come from faculty members, medical advisers. 4) There is no harm in it if played strictly according to the rules. 5) "Accidental" blows lose much of their force under water...
...Republican campaign between Mayor Thompson and Judge Lyle had been rough and raucous, bombastic and brutal. Yet in the election itself there were no shootings, no sluggings, no kidnappings, no ballot-stealing, only a few bloody noses. Against the Mayor had been arrayed the Tribune, the News, the Snow-Harding organization, the Deneen forces. That he had won the nomination even by a minority vote was due chiefly to the good work of his payroll machine, the Negro vote, the solid support of the "gang wards." Two also-ran Republican candidates took enough anti-Thompson votes away from Judge Lyle...
...rough appraisal of the following features is followed: the quarter of the class into which the man's ability put him in school his admission record, and his scholastic aptitude tests. The school attended by the man in question is also taken into consideration as affecting his examination record. Thus if the school were an excellent preparatory one, a fine record would not carry so much weight as in the case of a high school which did not happen to prepare its men as well for the entrance examinations...
...Everett '32, was the leading goal maker for the Harvard team, scoring once in the second period, and again after the first four minutes of the overtime period. The game was rough, and there were frequent piteups in front of the cage. Each team scored once after such a scandal...