Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rough. Weather: Stormy. Depth: About 140 ft Position of submarine: Almost vertical, making easy the attachment of hoisting chains...
...novels (The Patrician, etc.), stories (Five Tales, etc.), and powerful plays (Strife, Justice, The Skin Game, etc.). Of recent years his hobby has been launching obscure writers. Trader Horn (TIME, June 27, 1927) he heralded from South Africa. Bambi (TIME, July 23) he praised because it had minimized the rough tedium of a channel crossing...
...Union; but has been suppressed in Russia by Dictator Stalin because it contains the following damning passage: "Comrade Stalin, having become general secretary, has concentrated an enormous power in his hands; and I [Lenin] am not sure that he always knows how to use that power. . . . "Stalin is too rough, and this fault, entirely supportable in relations among us Communists, becomes insupportable in the office of general secretary. Therefore I propose to the comrades to find a way to remove Stalin from that position and appoint to it another man who differs from Stalin-more patient, more loyal, more polite...
...sailed across the finish line to capture the King's cup for Class A yachts. Her sailing time was 16 days, 21 hours.* Miss Helen G. Bell, daughter of the Elena's owner, wrote a seaworthy account of the voyage for the New York Times. She told of one rough afternoon and night: "The ship heeled over until the lee rail was awash and now and then as she shipped seas over the stern the water raced down the scuppers. "When I turned in for the night the sky was covered with ominous black clouds. The sea seemed infinitely large...
...learned banking in a rough and ready school. The cashier of a small-town Texas bank in 1905 had to keep one eye on the cash, and the other on the door. It took a shrewd judge of men to handle the lanky Texans who ambled into the Citizens National Bank of Ballinger. And when this bank merged with its rival, the First National, and Melvin Traylor became president, he needed as much good banking sense to manage a capital of $200,000 as he needs today to direct a bank with resources of over...