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Word: roughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been fighting only one man did that, and 'e did by butting. . . . I've been reading where Tunney is supposed to be the Woodrow Wilson of boxing. If that's so, I must be the Theodore Roosevelt, because they say I'm rough and I'm always ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Snooze | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...nice to look at-a lean little body and all dressed up in rakish clothes that nobody had ever seen before. Men said she was fast; but she was no girl for rough weather. They sent her out to sea as a noble experiment. A week passed and they didn't hear from her whose name was Rofa, 50-foot schooner, smallest of four small schooners racing from Sandy Hook to Santander, Spain. Her rigging was peculiar-designed by Herreshoff, who learned about sails in Scandinavian fjords. On the morning of the seventh day out, she had covered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: To Spain | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...tenth, then played par golf until at the seventeenth green he saw the crowd billowing over the turf to meet him and escort him back the new champion. With ten thousand people milling around him he sliced his teeshot into some heavy loam behind a tree, caught the rough with his pitch, put his third over the green, took a six. On the eighteenth he had another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Olympia Fields | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...Pardon my rough and tumble entrance to your party. But a brick through the window arouses quicker interest than a dollar's worth of pansies laid lovingly on the threshold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Misfit Cornell | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

Here a stretch of rough water called forth desperate efforts, threw two capsized sportsmen to the waiting rescue ships, gave a comfortable lead to a seaworthy Corker sea sled driven by Charles P. Stevens of Albany, N. H. Racer Stevens never lost his head. His time: 14 hrs., 5 minutes, 37 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boats | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

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