Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warm-Up. Annapolis left less of its conservative impress on Halsey than on most of its graduates. He acquired less book learning than many, graduating two-thirds of the way down his class ('04), but he kept more of his individuality as a rough & tough scrapper, quick to make up his mind and fearless in action. He became the kind of man around whom legends grow...
...estimated 350 new Freshmen, first representatives of the Class of 1949, will sign their names on myriad printed forms this morning in registration procedure at Memorial Hall. Another 75 or 80 second term Freshmen and upperclassmen will register Monday, according to University Hall's necessarily rough estimates at press time...
Next to winning, John J. McGraw liked feuding. During his 30 years as manager, his rough, tough, smart New York Giants won ten National League pennants and seldom finished out of the first-division money. Knockdown, drag-out feuds brightened most of those 30 years...
...bullet hole in the roof, and some particles of brain matter. "He must have remained unconscious for some hours. Snow began to fall at 6 next morning. . . . About 7 a.m., after it had stopped snowing, he had staggered from the summer house. . . . His footsteps could be traced in a rough circle round the gardens from tree to tree and back to the summer house, a distance of 165 yards. ... He then walked up a narrow path, unlocked the garden gate with his key, walked across the road ... a total distance of 300 yards. At 7:30 he rang the bell...
After three months of defense in the incredibly difficult mountains, the pride of Japan's Philippine Army had had enough. As braggart Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita's 20,000 remaining men, demoralized and disorganized, stumbled toward the coast, U.S. troops came in fast behind them through the rough-walled gorges of the Cagayan Valley...