Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increase of '65 students over the 1937-38 registration is expected, with 4,444 men enrolled for this term, as compared to last year's figure of 4,379. The figures are necessarily but rough approximations because of the early date and extraordinary weather conditions. They are computed for eleven major schools...
...last week of camp was marked by the over-night maneuver in which the Unit was organized as a battalion of four firing batteries. The preliminary march was but an inkling of the rough work scheduled for the night. By midnight all batteries were in position "on the base line" ready for flring at dawn. The excellence of the night's work was shown by the flring next morning. The results were commendable and demonstrated a high state of training on the part of the battery details and the flring batteries...
...Aces": Spaniards Piston, Segundo, Gabriel and Guillermo (jai-alaiers are known by only one name). Most publicized of the quartet was Piston, whose real name is Estanislao Maistegui, but was nicknamed Piston when he first started to play the game in his native San Sebastián. In a rough & tumble doubles game, in which the lead seesawed with almost as much rhythm as the bounding of the ball, the favorites Piston & Segundo were finally nosed...
...with bloody and dreary associations"; Cleveland gratified him only by the "astounding denseness" of his intelligence, and as for Roosevelt, "if he tried me ten years ago. he crushes me now." Dinners at the White House were deadly, with poor food, poor liquor and Roosevelt howling anecdotes about the Rough Riders...
Nearly a year ago, short, sturdy, smile-flashing Frank Hawks forswore his 20 years of headlong, rough-&-tumble aviation, became vice president of the Gwinn Company, and shuttled around Eastern airports showing what the Gwinn airplane could do. But even in such a head-over-heels endorsement as his Nutmeg contribution, Hawks had felt constrained to set down one big but. "Birds," he reminded the Nutmeg's readers, "are the only ones who never fail to make a perfect landing...