Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stead was now over the sea and, with 20 gallons of gas left-enough to keep him aloft only another twenty minutes-he was told his position was off the Point Reyes light. By now the dispatcher was running the plane. He told Stead there was a rough beach and a bench (level ground above a beach) behind the light...
Stead to Oakland: We pulled a flare and the shore is too rough...
Then Politician Paderewski's troubles began. "Piano playing," he once remarked, "is more difficult than statesmanship." But as a practical Premier, Paderewski was a first-rate pianist. He let correspondence pile up, let the telephone ring itself hoarse. In the rough & tumble of practical politics, he was a pushover for Poland's tough, military Marshal Pilsudski. In December 1919, Paderewski resigned, left Poland and politics to brood alone at his estate in Morges, Switzerland...
...Each year, in his report for the Foundation, he offers fresh facts to prove his point. Last year he took colleges to task for buying tuba players with scholarships (TIME, Feb. 14, 1938). Last week Dr. Jessup led off the Foundation's 33rd annual report by giving the rough side of his tongue to another growing evil: tramp scholars...
...display of "workshop material" is arranged to emphasize the continuity and development of ideas leading up to the filming of a Disney feature. Beginning with rough sketches of story ideas, the exhibit traces the growth of a film through more elaborate character development and various sketch-experiments in background design fixing the mood of the production...