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Word: roughest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shot him because I loved him," the woman chuckled, according to the police, who found her loitering, in the subway station with $15 in marked bills and a State bonus blank. She said it was the roughest voyage of her sixty years' experience in the North Atlantic. "And besides," she added with eyes a-twinkle, "I never said that the Prince proposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Journalese | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

...against Syracuse on Thursday, the University lacrosse team travelled to Hamilton, New York, Saturday and received a 4 to 0 setback from a Colgate twelve, which in its top form it should have bested. The game, the last of the season before the Yale match nest Saturday, was the roughest in which the University has yet participated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACROSSE TEAM LOSES | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

...boys and men, and has schooled them to a high degree of expertness in the rare and difficult art of unaccompanied singing. He has recruited his singers from his parish. The Church is at 59th Street and Ninth Avenue and the parish embraces some of the rudest and roughest blocks of New York's West Side, traditional as a region of brick and fist fighting rather than aesthetic cultivation. The boys are largely street urchins, sons of longshoremen and bricklayers. They quarrel and scamper on sidewalks and in back yards. But on occasion they put on their cassocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New York | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

...roughest game that has been seen at Hemenway in some time, 36 fouls were called in all during the contest, but except for the work of McLeish the free try throwing of both sides was very mediocre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON FIVE EASILY DEFEATS TUFTS, 38-17 | 2/25/1922 | See Source »

...fastest and roughest games ever played on Soldiers Field; the University lacrosse team defeated Yale on Saturday by the score of 4 to 3. A last minute rally by the Crimson broke the 3-3 deadlock, when E. P. Hirshberg '21 intercepted a pass of an Eli and slammed the winning tally into the goal. A. C. Frenyear '21 and L. Hall '20 were star performers for the Crimson, while Reynolds was the Eli's chief scorer. The work of C. L. Nunneker '22 and E. D. Weatherhead '22 were features of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON LACROSSE TEAM WINS FROM BLUE BY 4-3 | 5/17/1920 | See Source »

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