Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long march, and Mil Sci as a course and institution will be nearing the finale of 27 years of service. It was in the fall of 1916 that the first Army class in Military Science and Tactics was held here; since that time the unit has plugged ahead through rough times, often faltering, sometimes erring, but turning out many efficient Field Artillery officers on the way. Born as a quick trainer for the last war, the ROTC has become a national fact, a training source that built up the reservoir of officers for the early days of this...
...Force, said General Spaatz, "covered our shipping, protected our ports, made many reconnaissance flights to assure the arrival of our convoys and assisted in the destruction of enemy shipping." The commander of this force was last week identified as Air Vice Marshal Sir Hugh Pughe Lloyd, a short, thickset, rough, gruff veteran flyer who was commander of Britain's Mediterranean air forces in 1941-42. One day last week his Beaufighters caught enemy torpedo-bombers trying to attack Allied naval forces, shot down...
...plan during the early stages of the war was for a rough division of the economy, thus: 50% for the military, 50% for the civilian, in goods produced. The figure, long thought impossible of attainment, crept up & up; by last week production of war goods was 66%, just below two-thirds of the economy...
Five sleek Crimson shells did business as usual with M. I. T. last Saturday. But the five victories that were Harvard's were won from a dangerously powerful M. I. T., and the closeness of some of the races, especially the Varsity finale, auger a rough time in Philadelphia next week for the oarsmen...
...rawhide from their snowshoes. They suggested killing the Indians. Eddy warned them. Silently they disappeared. Soon another man died. His wife saw her husband's heart "roasted on a stick." In January, Eddy, supported by two Digger Indians, "left bloody foot prints across six miles of rough ground" and reached a ranch. At last California knew what had happened to the Donners. Relief expeditions began to form at once...