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Word: roughing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the University who spend much of their time in Washington have taken it upon themselves, it is thought, to instill in Huey P. Long the rudiments of "Harvard culture." Apparently seeing in the powerful and outspoken Senator from Louisiana a diamond in the rough, the gentlemen from Cambridge intend to polish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUMOR SAYS HARVARD MEN COACHING HUEY IN ORATORY | 3/15/1935 | See Source »

...that day and the next the Macon cruised down the rough, ragged shoreline while battleships and cruisers sported about on the Pacific below her. Off Santa Monica there was wind and rain but the airship had often bucked worse weather without trouble. By the time the Macon was ready to turn around and start for home, the little storm was practically over and the air had cleared enough for persons on shore to see her red and green lights flashing through the dusk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Last of the Last | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...Macon made her maiden flight in April 1933. Since the Los Angeles had been decommissioned year before, she became the only U. S. dirigible left in Naval service. Last spring in flying from California to Florida she broke two small girders in rough air over Texas (TIME, May 21). Even so, her builders and operators pooh-poohed the idea that there was anything structurally wrong with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Last of the Last | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...suspected of killing a night-club person. Mobilizing vast resources of wit, charm, and coolheadedness, Miss Collier leaves her house in her electric motor car, competently brings the niggling little mystery to its proper conclusion. A minor mystery to cinemagoers is the nature of the locale of a rough-&-tumble which winds up the picture. Unexplained by any dialog, it resembles a ruined cathedral, is full of rickety scaffolding upon which the male actors fight vigorously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema, Feb. 25, 1935 | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...disturbed Economist Mitchell. She inherited $53,000,000 from her father. Depression shaved that fortune to $30,000,000, still let Miss Duke remain undisputed No. i heiress in the U. S. Her behavior as such was appropriate. Father Duke's polish was acquired by friction along the rough road to riches. But Mother Duke was born an aristocrat, Nanaline Holt, of a First Family of Macon, Ga. Gracious, conservative, charming, she became the second wife of Tycoon Duke, and five years later Doris was born. For her upbringing, Doris' parents prescribed what they called simplicity. Doris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Merger | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

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