Word: roughed
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...greatness. Irish son of an Irish policeman, Edward Joseph Kelly was born 57 May Days ago on Chicago's West 38th Street. At 17 he got a job as axman with the Sanitary District then building the Drainage Canal near his home. Later he was toughened in the rough frontier town of Lemont, Ill. where Negro workmen, when killed on the job, were dumped on the rock pile and covered up with canal excavations. By industry and intelligence Kelly became a good practical engineer, a good practical politician with the Sanitary District. His first wife died in 1918. Four...
...Capitol's Statuary Hall stands a large Gutzon Borglum bronze of the late John Campbell Greenway in Army breeches, boots, crop and shirt. Arizona chose this Yaleman, Rough Rider, A. E. F. colonel, rancher and copper tycoon as one of its two most distinguished citizens, had his statue made and presented to the Government. Last week the youngest State started John Greenway's widow on her way to the Capitol and to a seat in the House of Representatives not 100 yards from her husband's statue. Arizona Democrats nominated Mrs. Greenway to be their State...
Almost any careful gunner can make a rough estimate of how many gamebirds he has hit but failed to bag. Paul L. Errington and Logan J. Bennett, wild life researchers of Iowa State College, wanted something more accurate. Last autumn they got some Iowa wardens and picked hunters to keep track of hits and losses. They present their findings in the September Outdoor Life...
...chains. So 22 stores straddling the U. S. from Seattle to Greensboro. N. C.-largest of them Jordan Marsh of Boston-were merged in Hahn Department Stores, Inc. Lehman Brothers and Prince & Whitely floated the stock. Lew Hahn became president. Like many a boom-launched ship, it ran into rough water. The stores' pre-Depression earnings of $6,000,000 a year promptly fell to $4,000,000 in 1929, to $2,500,000 in 1930, dropped to a deficit of $300,000 for 1931, to a deficit of $3,747,000 for 1932. Two years ago Lew Hahn...
...worse than any dream of torment Dante could ever have conceived. The heat stood a solid wall even ... at 10,000 feet, and if we tried a mere peep through windows our eyes were scorched and our heads swam. Of course, to add to the discomfort, it was rough as the dickens. . ." After two scorching days & nights, the weather turned cool and cloudy. They began to enjoy themselves. Near Juba the pilot banged a bell thrice. Game! Fourteen passengers whooped with excitement, flattened their noses against the windows as the ship's nose went down. They saw a herd...