Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, rode out with a 21-to-0 victory over depleted U. C. L. A. On the eve of the homecoming game at Iowa City between Iowa and Minnesota, Governor Clyde La Verne Herring was said to have announced that his fellow citizens "would not permit any undue rough treatment" of Negro Oze Simmons, fleet Iowa halfback. Infuriated, the Minnesota team held its pre-game workout in Illinois guarded by firemen, local constables and State police. Then it stepped across the line, handed Oze Simmons & teammates a 13-to-6 beating. Harvard, having failed to score a touchdown against...
...Howdy do, Isaac, where is Jacob? Hello, Joseph! Say, old man, that was a rough deal they tried to put over on you down in Egypt, when that woman tried to tempt you and you looked her square in the face and pushed her away. Say, Joseph, I like you." Then Billy Sunday asked for Peter, James, John, Andrew, Philip. Finally he asked a favor of Jesus: Could he hang around the gate to welcome his family in? "You can sit right there, Bill, if you want to. It's all right." So he hung around the gate, waiting...
Cleated shoes were first worn in 1881. No pads and head guards were worn, and both teams remained on the field during intermissions. The game was rough, injuries few, and penalties unknown...
...some of the customarily friendly citizens of Cambridge had Cambridge Common closed to football and the players then went to Holmes Field, then a rough, uneven area poorly adapted to any sport--contrast later...
...edges were rough fortnight ago when he spoke of the "extreme sanction" (blockade) as something into which not even the League of Nations could get Great Britain unless he knew beforehand what attitude the U. S. would take-i.e., that Washington would help. By last week Statesman Baldwin was rounding his rough notion smooth. "The most extreme sanction," he declared wisely at Wolverhampton, "would be a very difficult one in the absence of three countries now outside the League-America, Japan and Germany...