Word: roughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempting to make the common rooms in Dunster and Lowell Houses a cross between those in Vanderbilt Hall in the Medical School and those in the Freshman Halls. That is, we anticipate occasional rough-houses.... There will probably be no ping-pong tables."--William G. Morse, University purchasing agent...
...m.p.h., to help Gar Wood's Miss America X, which has gone 124 m.p.h., defend the Cup against this year's British challenger, Hubert Scott-Paine's Miss Britain III. Fifteen minutes before the start, which had been postponed for three hours because of rough water, the Delphine V sputtered out from her boat well, where mechanics had been trying to solder up leaks in her fuel lines. Two miles below the grandstands, she burst into flames. Her crew drove her ashore, stood by safe but helpless while Delphine V burned to the waterline...
...York City was only sideswiped by the storm as it pounded northwest across the State. The Sandy Hook light was blown out and the Statue of Liberty went dark when lightning struck its power plant. So rough was the sea of Ambrose Channel that harbor pilots were unable to board incoming liners. Into Brooklyn was blown a baby Louisiana heron, with one wing broken. The storm gave the city a six-month supply of water in its mammoth reservoirs...
...lineup, but in Michael Phipps's stead was a burly, baldish fellow with a fringe of red hair and a bright red helmet. This Was another scion of one of the East's great socialite polo families, Earle A. S. ("Young Earle") Hopping, 199 lb., a cool, rough-riding player who helped beat Argentina in 1928. He went in at No. 2 while Hitchcock moved to No. 3, Winston Guest...
Play in the second game had hardly begun when the West realized that for its rough play in the first game the East was giving back double measure. This time it was the Eastern player who shouldered his opponent out of the way, swung his mallet heedlessly in races for the ball. Hitchcock took the game's first bad tumble, his pony rolling over him, pinning his right leg, giving him a slight brain concussion. Play was stopped for 20 minutes, but Hitchcock insisted on going back. Shaken and aching, he rode automatically with an old campaigner...