Word: roughest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With military supervision and secrecy, and with plentiful U.S. funds, wells are being brought in as fast as the drills can go down. Pipelines are being strung through some of the roughest country on the continent. Refineries and tank farms are going up to make and store gasoline and oil for the planes to Asia...
...Francisco Howard Hughes's The Outlaw (TIME, Feb. 22), despite the roughest handling any film has had from cinema critics in years, was in its fifth record-breaking week...
...content with anything but the roughest ground and the iciest peaks, members of the Mountaineering Club this winter are going to undertake some of the hardest climbs in the world at Huntington Ravine on Mt. Washington...
What may some day be the biggest and roughest fight in U.S. industry last week flared into the open. The battlers: the rich, powerful automobile manufacturers, epitome of U.S. industrial might, v. the fast-growing aircraft makers, symbolic of U.S. designing and technical agility. The fracas has been stewing ever since the British asked Detroit to make plane engines early in 1940. It will get really hot when Detroit goes after the civilian or transport plane market after...
...game was one of the roughest games of the year as the Elis completely covered the Crimson players. Hugh Hyde and Bunks Burditt, in their regular slots on the double-bucket offense, were so much out of the picture that they had only a few chances to receive passes or take shots...