Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pick the best looking ear rather than the one that promised the biggest yield. By crossbreeding he perfected a seed corn which now sells far & wide throughout Iowa. Wrote he: "Show corn ideals deal too much with beauty and too little with utility. Whether corn has smooth or rough kernels means very little more than the presence or absence of a dimple on a pretty girl." He is the author of Corn and Corn Growing, What Is in a Corn Judge's Mind and A Mathematical Inquiry into the Effect of Weather on Corn Yields...
...flight. Only other mishap reported, when the two planes, having traveled 320 mi., alighted at Purnea exactly three hours after the flight began, was that Lieut. Mclntyre's electrically heated gloves had performed too efficiently, blistering the aviator's hands. All hands were delighted with a rough rag jolly well done...
Under the Roosevelt plan the Department of Labor would recruit city jobless from municipal lodging houses, breadlines and relief agencies, enlisting them in a Civilian Conservation Corps for one year. The War Department would concentrate recruits at Army camps, weed out the physically unfit, equip the rest with rough civilian clothes and give them several weeks' disciplinary training before turning them over in organized units to the Department of Agriculture for transportation to the national forests. For work in the woods members of the C. C. C. would be paid not more than $1 per day, plus food, shelter...
...down the quiet path of a country gentleman. When his friends urged him to run for President he exclaimed: "Do they think I am such a damned fool? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way; but I am not fit to be President...
...logical from of such action would consist in a definite agreement between the House Masters as to the number and character of Freshmen to be admitted into each House. As a result of this agreement, a rough but proportionate cross section would for the first time be admitted to each Houses and those Houses particularly overdosed with private school or club men would receive a smaller number of them than the other Houses. This is of course, precisely the sort of action which should have taken place last year, and it is a sad commentary on the weak relations between...