Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked as if Hitler intended to throw his full weight at Russia, but his first moves were tentative and met a rough Russian answer. It looked as if the Japanese Army were going to try to knock China out of the war, and yet the campaign seemed, at least to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's plane-blind forces, unclear and not yet full-blown. It looked as if the Japanese Navy were re-forming for another reach at Australia's screen, but the concentration was not yet completed. There was renewed activity in the Mediterranean...
...hottest days in midsummer there will probably be fewer dull setting-up exercises and more of such games as volley ball. In general the summer program will be more flexible than this spring with many of the present rough spots ironed...
...Princeton the Varsity 150's had tough sledding. Arbitrarily placed in a rough outside lane, the Crimson dropped behind Princeton and Penn during the first half-mile when the latter were favored with calmer water. From the three quarter mark on the lightweights began to gain, but at the finish were still four feet behind Princeton, with Penn sandwiched second. The Tigers, in taking the Wright Cup from Harvard, shattered the Lake Carnegie Henly mark for the second time this year...
Racing under rough conditions in New Haven Harbor Saturday afternoon, the Eliot House crew encountered little difficulty in maintaining Harvard's crew superiority over the Elis. Captain John Carpenter's oarsmen turned in a six-length victory over Trumbull College, the Yale College champions, over the nautical mile...
...Elephants used their own oars, but were boated in a shell provided by the Yale A. A. Rough water forced the postponement of the race until after six o'clock, when it finally calmed down enough to allow the crews to take the water...