Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearst's war with Spain was on. At a contracted salary of $200 per week from Leslie's Weekly and Scribner's Magazine, 25-year-old Howard Chandler Christy sailed for Cuba on the same transport with Col. Leonard Wood, Lieut.-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders. The 400 drawings he sent back from the front are possibly Christy's best work to date...
...rough check-up of Freshman material shows a number of former high school and prep school cindermen. Although the latter may experienced, it remains to be seen just how many individual stars can be developed...
...every subject known to have a brain tumor, or subsequently found to have one, of whatever size, the MIO was definitely higher than normal. Olfactory fatigue (individual increase of MIO after prolonged whiffing) was also longer than normal. Extent to which the MIO and fatigue were abnormal furnished a rough clue to the size and depth of the tumor. Finally, unequal distribution of scent power and endurance between the two nostrils showed that the tumor was located wholly or mostly in one hemisphere of the brain...
University Professorships are proposed because a university should be a place where "the unity of knowledge is remembered along with the pursuit of specialized teaching and enquiry". Specialization is in itself largely artificial a rough and convenient demonstration of knowledge always in danger of bogging down under the weight of its own independent and circumscribed tradition. University Professors, subject to no departmental regulations and supplied with an adequate staff, still counterbalance specialization and open new vistas to unrestricted learning...
Playfair furnished an example of this last year, when, after having trimmed Woodland, Minor, and Canning of Yale in the H-Y-P meet, he trailed them to the tape along the rough Van Cortlandt course. Workouts in Brookline had been expected to obviate a similar upset this year, and until the news of Playfair's illness, Jaakko's team looked good for a victory...