Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the standardization of court size has long ago done away with any such regional differences, there still remains, according to Coach Harry Cowles, a rough grouping of the various champions produced by Harvard into two classes somewhat along the lines of the old Philadelphia and Boston systems. Squash is the most popular game at Harvard if figures for intramural athletics are to be believed and yet how many people realize that they are playing a system...
During the War the British Government closed its mails & cables to Hearst newshawks, charging distorted reports of the Battle of Jutland. France and Canada followed suit. Forced into catch-as-catch- can methods of gathering War news, Publisher William Randolph Hearst stooped to rough-&-tumble. In Cleveland a telegraph editor on an Associated Press paper was found who, for a price, would smuggle AP news from abroad to Hearst's International News Service. Many another spy was similarly subsidized. The AP secured an injunction forbidding INS to pirate AP news...
...last westbound trip of the Olympic's florid, stocky skipper from Southampton to New York. Over the North Atlantic raged a winter's storm that brought many a vessel distress, twice sent the barometer from 30 in. to 28 in.-lowest Captain Binks had ever seen. So rough was New York's almost landlocked harbor that mail boats could take off only 700 of the Olympic's mail load of 13,108 bags. Captain Binks called it "the worst bloomin' sea I ever saw in 35 years at Quarantine." Unconnected with Captain Binks...
...personage fumed, his Communist guards made him thoroughly uncomfortable by giving him some of their own black bread and cabbage soup. Then like a bolt from the blue came Moscow's answer, an airplane luxuriously equipped. Into it popped Minister Cuintu and zoomed off to his post over rough country innocent of railways...
...consequences of last week's rough stuff: for Klein, a dislocated shoulder, mild concussion, eight stitches in his head; for Stewart, indefinite suspension...