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Word: rougher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suspicions were understandable. With industry spending a record $27.3 billion on expansion this year, almost every state, county and city in the nation is hungrily trying to lure new industries. Says Victor Roterus, area development chief for the U.S. Commerce Department: "Competition to get new industry has never been rougher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: WANTED: NEW INDUSTRY | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

Eventually, the Craig forces had to let a toll-road restriction bill pass the senate. But it was watered down to a thinness almost acceptable to the Craig administration. Lieutenant Governor Harold W. Handley, the key Jenner lieutenant, complaining that his forces should have been rougher in the fight, cracked: "But, you know how it is; there are always a few boys who don't really know the score, and so they want to be fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Warfare on the Wabash | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

...freshmen face even a rougher fee at Williston Academy, where they meet the holders of three national prop school records, also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swim Team to Meet Undefeated Princeton | 2/26/1955 | See Source »

...only do the pros play better and more complex football than even the best college teams, they also play rougher. "We play rough and we teach rough," says Lion Coach Buddy Parker. "And when I say rough I don't mean poking a guy in the eye. I mean gang tackling-right close to piling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Pride of Lions | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Coach Jordan, meanwhile, returns the favor, calling the Eli line "bigger and rougher than any we have met." It averages 202 pounds--seven more than the varsity's--and has been the main factor in Yale's success in clinching a tie for its first Ivy League title since...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Varsity Eleven Seeks Big Three Title Against Yale Before Crowd of 40,000 | 11/20/1954 | See Source »

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