Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while golfing in Kansas City-directed what happened next. They threatened to kill the warden, "pile up the guards in heaps," unless they and nine companions were allowed freedom. Warden Prather, choking in his noose, led the party of eleven desperadoes, all armed, to Post No. 3 in the rough stone wall...
...Rough, strong-headed Cecil John Rhodes who dug a fortune out of Africa was a strong believer in Anglo-Saxondom. One day he took seriously a conversational suggestion by the late Editor William Thomas Stead of the British Review of Reviews that the British Empire join with the U. S. Republic under a constitution based on the U. S. Cried Rhodes: "I take it-I take it! ... Dear me, how ideas expand. I thought my ideas were tolerably large, but yours have outgrown them. Yes, yes, you are quite right!" So Cecil Rhodes set up a ?1,000,000 trust...
Starting under conditions as fast as any that have been encountered this year, the Jayvee shell took an early lead from the Varsity, but was soon overtaken, and remained a length behind as far as the Harvard Bridge, where the Varsity placed a comfortable sheet of open water, now rough, behind it. The effectiveness of what would otherwise have been a fine Jayvee spurt at the finish was spoiled through the unaccountable disappearance of the coxswain's whistle. It is rumored that the Varsity crew was responsible for its removal...
Except for the week of Bacon's illness, the stern four nucleus of the great 1930 Freshman crew have been kept intact, and there are still eight powerful oarsmen in the Varsity shell. Their rowing, however, has been rough, tense, and nervous, and a certain amount of checking and dousing has been the result. It is too easy to see that there is plenty of power in the boat; there is lost that smoothness and fineness of oarsmanship which made the former Freshman boat move almost effortlessly, and which gave the observer the impression that it possessed almost limitless hidden...
...last winter. Eager as most producers were to cut production enough to save prices, some refused to be constricted. Some went to law, got injunction after injunction against the proration orders of the Texas Railroad Commission. While the courts were voiding orders and the Commission making new ones, the rough & tumble crowd in East Texas took other means. They constructed secret pipe connections, they enlarged valves, to ''steal their own oil." Mr. Holmes estimated that 75,000,000 bbl. of "hot" oil were taken out illegally in 15 months-nearly half of it in Texas. Early in April...