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Word: roughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the past week, a strong wind has made the waters of the Charles River Basin too rough for any conclusive trials but the three crews have been over the course several times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST YEAR EIGHT IS ROUNDING INTO FORM | 4/27/1929 | See Source »

...nine years of rowing competition with the crews from Annapolis. No changes have been made in the seating of the Cardinal and Gray eight and the predommance of Sophomores and Juniors with the exclusion of former first string oarsmen predicts that Tech's opponents will find the going rough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ROWING RIVALS FACE FOES | 4/26/1929 | See Source »

...would bring out all manner of interesting comments and criticisms which would reveal to us on this side things we ought to put right if more and more American visitors, who would greatly be welcomed, are to come to us. I pass the suggestion on to you in this rough way. It would, I think, produce most interesting material. SYDNEY WALTON* London, England Let readers say why they do not visit England, why they do, what they would like "put right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 22, 1929 | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Mile. Falconetti's face is sunburned and her lips are shrunken and seem dry; thin lines mark her forehead, her rough hair, cut short, fits her head like a wooden cap. She is ugly, but her eyes are beautiful, and as her thought makes changes in her face she too becomes beautiful. At first, she seems paralyzed with amazement and terror; later, from some unexplained emotion, she weeps", and through the trial big tears run down her tanned face. Her answers in the subtitles are the same that were given by the real Joan according to the record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 8, 1929 | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...from a burning building to the street with the loss of only one, J. Caesar, who did the gladiatorial act. Said a bystander to Professor Huber: "You must treat them gently to make them so obedi- ent." Said he: "I treat 'em gentle or I treat 'em rough according to their nature and their needs. They're artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 8, 1929 | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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