Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leverett managed a 4-3 win over a stubborn Eliot tennis team in the first of the inter-House court matches scheduled for this season. Play was erratic and rough on both sides due to a strong wind which whipped across the nets. With the wind behind it, the ball sped across the net for easy aces, while many attempts against it resulted in weak lobs...
...originally put up by England's Lord Stanley in 1893 for the amateur hockey championship of Canada. Since 1908 it has been emblematic of the world's professional championship. It cost $50. It looks like an ashtray on an obelisk. The cup itself, battered by travel and rough usage, long ago became too small to hold the names of all the teams that have won it. Ten 2-in. rings of silver have been added to its original base to make more room for the names of the players...
...strengthen his feeble legs, carrying an iron rod. From the very beginning of his career Belmonte was frequently hurt: his bad legs made it impossible for him to run fast; he always let the bull pass him too close for comfort, sometimes too close lor safety. He served a rough apprenticeship in the ring, fighting wherever and for whatever he could. With his first profits he rescued his family from the poorhouse...
...Wednesday before the team was organized, the Jayvees lost to a hard-hitting Newton High School nine, 7-2, but since then the rough spots have been smoothed out and they feel assured of a victory today...
Over the unmarked hump of ground in South Dakota's Black Hills where lies Deadwood Dick Carver, boomtown desperado and dime novel hero, the Deadwood Chamber of Commerce voted to place a rough stone monument and a brass plate...