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Word: roughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...school. These make for cloudiness but the play frequently transcends its uncertainty with moments of eerie suspense. And the dia log is often shot through with a fine fire of poetry. It is played against elemental backgrounds designed by Lee Simonson which do much to soften its rough edges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...that come on the face or neck of farmers or any one who is exposed much to the sun, wind and rain may ultimately become cancers, but not at all necessarily so. They quite often are allowed to go neglected until they form a wart or a raised and rough portion of the skin. This may become scratched or irritated in some way and ultimately be a cancer, but by protection of the spots from the weather and sunlight or by treatment they may be eradicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Progress | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...game started at a slow pace, the first quarter being marked by numerous fouls and rough play. Unaccustomed to passing on a large floor, the Harvard team was balked at every play by the Milton five, which kept the Crimson on the defensive from the start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1932 QUINTET DEFEATS MILTON TEAM 20 TO 15 | 2/6/1929 | See Source »

...between Mount Auburn Street and the Charles River should be considered which is not the result of long study, and of planning ahead for the future," writes Chairman Pond. After stating its hypothesis of a new and second Yard, the Council report reads, "The plan attached is merely a rough sketch intended to portray the Council's ideas. It does not pretend to be final or entirely accurate. The whole scheme should be gone over by competent architectural and landscape advisors. It is the basic idea which we consider sound." By advancing in this concluding paragraph practically the same major...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MONOPOLY | 1/31/1929 | See Source »

...completed future project, and not allow objections to the cost on the part of the University to be sufficient cause for waiving a better plan. Objections of such sort can be diplomatically overcome. The Student Council committee has shown rare wisdom is insisting on the proper procedure. Although their rough sketch shows defects (for instance, the chapel would probably be better situated where the second housing unit is planned, and an octagon might prove more suitable for the lot on which the fourth unit is to go, since there must be ready access to the new yard) these will vanish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "A Harvard Beautiful" | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

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