Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walker Cup players trying St. Andrews for the first time were amazed to find how primitive and ungroomed the Royal & Ancient course really is, with its public pathways worn by people crossing it on the way to the beach, its rough greens and sheep-cropped fairways, its gorse and hummocks and vague stretches of ground neither rough nor fairway...
...performances of Othello. Audiences approved his making the character an Ethiopian and the play a Negro tragedy. Peggy Ashcroft, his white "Desdemona," he fondled and kissed. But if and where he takes the play to the U. S. he will cut that "business." Anticipated he: "The audience might get rough, in fact might become very, dangerous...
...Navy crew, true to the tradition that Navy crews are good in rough water: a race on the Charles River at Cambridge, Mass., beating M. I. T. by half a length with Harvard third and Pennsylvania a bad fourth...
...powerful, hard-rowing Navy crew, never headed from start to finish, fought through the rough waters of the Charles River Basin Saturday to victory over the eights of Harvard, Penn and Tech. From their starting sport, which sent them well ahead of the other crews, the Midshipmen maintained a steady, grinding pace which kept them in the lead until the finish was reached, a lead which Tech but threatened at the last, and the other crews never touched...
Harvard's loss in the main event was somewhat of a disappointment, since it is the Crimson's first defeat of the season. When, however, it is considered that both Tech and Navy are much heavier crews than the Crimson, Harvard's showing in the rough water of the Basin is by no means discouraging. To observers in launches following the race, it appeared that Harvard shipped a lot of water after passing the bridge; if that was the case, a higher stroke might have resulted in sinking the shell...