Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the Penn game, where the Feslermen gave the visitors the start of their season, and showed at last that the honorable game of basketball can be played on the banks of the Charles, the team has had a series of stiff drills, ironing out all rough spots, and attempting to build up the stamina necessary for League competition...
...young quintet won out in a rough game because it deserved to win, the play was fast and hard, both teams were nervous, but the Crimson never gave up, and managed to hold its slight lead to the final whistle. The team had an advantage in height over the Jumbos, Gray being especially useful, and they were greatly benefitted by Tufts' complete inability to sink free throws...
...France in 1852, four years after 40 French Trappists began building their vast monastery in Kentucky, not far from Bardstown and its Cathedral. Professing his vows at La Grande Trappe where the Order (Reformed Cistercians) received its nickname, Father Obrecht early learned Trappist discipline-to sleep in his rough wool habit; arise at 2 a. m.; spend the day in devotions and hard work;* dig his own grave; speak during the day only to his superiors and during the "Great Silence" of the night, to no one at all. A friend of the last four Popes, he was sent...
...east of Jupiter Light on the Florida coast was the S. S. Havana. While the passengers were eating breakfast Captain Alfred W. Peterson sent an SOS. While they were dancing the rumba in the lounge, he let down an empty lifeboat to test sea conditions. He found them rough. But the Havana was pounding, threatening to break up. Taking no chances, Captain Peterson lowered two boatloads of passengers, lowered four more when the Southern Pacific liner El Oceano arrived. Of the Havana's 51 passengers, all were saved but one man died of apoplexy in a lifeboat. Fifty...
...become a great university, many alumni feel that Rochester needs a great man with a great idea. For such a man and such an idea they turned last week to Alan Chester Valentine. They saw a pleasant, stocky young man with dark hair & blue eyes, a fondness for rough sports, no doctor's degree, and a career of only seven years as an educator. At Swarthmore he had won the esteem of President Frank Aydelotte by playing good football, making Phi Beta Kappa, winning a Rhodes Scholarship. In 1928 he was called back to Swarthmore as an assistant professor...