Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the Russians in Stalingrad a two-mile pontoon bridge, built of rough planks supported by empty gasoline cans, gave access across the Volga. Since Sept. 18 German bombers had dropped tons of explosives attempting to smash the bridge, but had done only minor damage and that was quickly repaired. But the floating bridge was a slender thread...
...Hope, who flew 16,000 miles on his Alaska junket, took along Jerry ("Mustache") Colonna and Singer Frances Langford. "They never went rough on Frances," he said. "But a few of them took a look at her and wept in their hands." He added: "I guess you can take care of sex with saltpeter. But you can't keep a man from reading his mother into any girl who shows up in a spot like that...
...final figures gospel in the world's exchanges. Once (1909) she missed by only one-half of one percent on a 118,719,000-bu. crop. From 1904 until 1933 she failed only twice to make a guess: in 1912, which was too wet for even a rough estimate; in 1926, when...
...Texas," and everybody else is going to hate it. A lot of business about "those hot-blooded Texans gettin' rid of those damyankees" winds up, ironically enough, with Sam Houston appearing out of the clouds, and orating wildly with a lush New England accent. That'll give you a rough idea of what goes on for an hour and a quarter, Texas Standard Time. Broderick Crawford manages to portray a refreshingly different sort of villain, but aside from that--well, Houston had the right idea...
...touch schedule starts tomorrow, but the other teams will not be ready to swing into action until a week from this Thursday. More conditioning work for tackle players is necessary to got them in shape for the rough and tumble tactics that most of them haven't indulged in since last fall...