Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rough, sprawling Harbin, Manchuria swarmed with intrigue-Chinese v. Russians, Japanese v. Chinese, Russians v. Japanese, White Russians v. Red Russians, bandits v. everybody. Into this hotbed, as U. S. Consul, stepped George Charles Hanson, huge, round, genial and imperturbable as a sculptured Buddha. In Shanghai, Chefoo, Dairen, Newchwang, Tientsin, Swatow, Chungking, Foochow he had already made himself one of the Far East's best-known diplomats. It had been 13 years since he left his native Bridgeport, Conn, as a Cornell engineering graduate. In that time he had learned to stay sober while gulping vast quantities of vodka...
...Olympic Club battle, Duffey was playing with Moseley instead of John Callaway and that combination scored all of Harvard's tallies. Perhaps Duffey was too rough and Stubbs is trying to keep him on the bench with Dewey to be used as shock troops but it seems probable that there will be a shakeup in the announced lines...
...recall in a previous performance that the lines of the play were pearls of wit, and trite not at all. This time I was able to rescue just a few from the crowd, particularly this throaty declamation, with gestures, "You a man? God made a blunder." The rough simplicity of the ballad, "She is more to be pitied than censured (for a man was the cause of it all)", likewise struck my fancy...
...Apparently, a certain rough law of compensation is at work in the cigaret trade," commented Standard's statisticians. "Whenever a single brand advances far ahead of the others, it eventually becomes the victim of a competitor's advertising attack. This happened to Camel in 1929-31 and to Lucky Strike in 1933-34. Aside from this generalization, it is futile to attempt to forecast sales of leading brands for any distance ahead. Particularly is it impossible to foresee the response of the millions of cigaret consumers to whatever new advertising appeals may be devised...
What is to happen next? By analogy with other novae, we can make a rough prediction. The star will fade slowly away, at first flickering as it fades, but at last the star will become steadily dim. Most novae have returned at last to their original brightness, so we may expect this one to sink once more to the fourteenth magnitude from which it rose. But the fall in brightness, if we may judge from present progress, will take several years, perhaps as many...