Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This book deals with only ten days at the end of the Lindberghs' six-month survey flight around the North Atlantic in 1933-the days when, on their way home, they landed at the Cape Verde Islands on their way to South America, found the sea too rough to permit a takeoff, returned to Africa and waited impatiently for wind strong enough to get their heavily loaded Lockheed Sirius into...
...ARCHITECTURAL FORUM published rough plans, which Franklin Roosevelt sketched and initialed last February and Architect Henry J. Toombs of Atlanta trued up, for a five-room, one-story ''dream house" on the President's lately purchased, 70-acre tract next to his mother's estate at Hyde Park. In his rendered perspective drawings, Architect Toombs respectfully subscribed himself only as an "associate" of Architect Roosevelt (unlicensed). Comparison of Mr. Roosevelt's sketches with Mr. Toombs's finished plans revealed a fairly high degree of competence in the amateur, only minor improvements by the professional...
...Rough English translation: a stocky, extrovert woman and a slender introvert man. * PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS IN MARITAL HAPPINESS-McGraw-Hill Book...
...flight of pelicans and cormorants, a spirited defense of vultures and well-chosen excerpts from the works of other naturalists. One of these, Dr. L. H. Matthews' description of the mating habits of the albatross, reads like something by James Thurber. Albatross mating, it appears, is "no rough-and-tumble affair as with the house spar-row"; the males "gather around one female and bow to her, bringing the head down close to the ground. As they do this they utter a harsh groaning sound, and the female bows and groans back at them." The mysteries and wonders which...
America's only living ex-President, Mr. Hoover, delivered a very moral attack on the Roosevelt administration the other night in Kansas City. From the number of times he used the word "moral", at a rough guess forty times, it is clear that morals are being safeguarded by Mr. Hoover and the Republican party while the Democrats are allowing them to rust. But paragraphs such as the following tend to make one doubt his close application to the study of morals as a science and suspect that there may be willy-nilly a touch of politics in his utterance...