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Word: roughing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rough estimate places the number of students who registered yesterday at slightly more than 2,000, although these figures are not official. However, the registration is by no means complete, as a great many men are expected back within the next few weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over 2,000 Students Registered | 1/3/1919 | See Source »

...spite of rough water and a stiff wind the two-mile course was covered in 12 minutes 45 seconds. No special endeavor, however, was made for good time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY OARSMEN ROWED ON HOUSATONIC | 5/31/1918 | See Source »

...satisfactory re-rigged to suit the University style of rowing. This would necessitate transporting a boat to New Haven, and, accordingly, the use of the Ward boat. Of the other two new shells one is also a regulation Ward while the other is one of the well-known Rough boats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO STEAM LAUNCHES GIVEN UP | 3/29/1918 | See Source »

Miss Wyman and Mr. Brockway, who have visited the Kentucky mountain region for the purpose of becoming familiar with its folk songs, gathered their ballads direct from the people themselves, and have reproduced them true to the life with all of the rough and simple mountain spirit. Their collection of ballads was published in 1916, entitled "Lonesome Tunes: Folk Songs from the Kentucky Mountains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO SING OLD KENTUCKY BALLADS | 2/25/1918 | See Source »

...kindly gentleman down in the Square to us the other day, "that your men are gentlemen." He shouldn't have been surprised; but he was just another victim of popular report. Like countless others, he thought sailors were instinctively rowdies, that the uniform was the signal for a rough-house, and that he had better nail everything down that was laying around loose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Attitude Toward the Sailor. | 2/23/1918 | See Source »

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