Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Major General George S. Patton-hard as carborundum and sometimes twice as rough-went his second D.S.M. last week, to be added to one of the finest collections of ribbons in the Army. He got it for distinguished service in the capture of Casablanca, where he was in command...
...save the high-quality steel normally used for such precision instruments, and to speed inspection, some of these gauges are now being rough molded of glass by Corning Glass Works and A. H. Heisey & Co., and finished by instrument makers. Glass gauges do not rust, need not be greased when idle (thus avoiding cleaning before use), are not corroded by perspiration or chemical vapors. Glass is lighter than steel, is less affected by the heat of an inspector's hands. Its transparency is an aid in positioning in the delicate handling necessary in such operations. Once the molds...
When Simplifier Littlewood sent a rough draft of his work to Shaw the response was "By hook or crook get it published without waiting to make it any better. Then advienne que pourra...
...Rough Pupils...
...turbulent vigor and the ambition of the big steel town. The film never gets beyond the coarseness. As a coal miner who marries the boss's daughter and by hook & crook becomes a boss himself, John Wayne is a thoroughly stereotyped Hollywood heel. Marlene Dietrich, cast as a rough diamond, looks like a phony one. For denouement, Pearl Harbor arrives to engulf all the characters in a spurious blaze of patriotism. Pittsburgh looks more like slag than good wartime metal...