Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seattle, after 35 years, Dr. Ira C. Brown apologized to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt for twice catching her husband trying to break quarantine to go to her when the "Rough Riders" returned to Montauk Point, L. I. from Cuba. Said Mrs. Roosevelt...
...morning that he had the 2,500 h.p. Blue Bird towed to the end of the course, 40 yd. wide and nine miles long with the measured mile in the centre, the sand was still rough and strewn with shells. Sir Malcolm's left wrist, sprained on the gearshift in a 240-m.p.h. trial spin last fortnight, was still sore. A thin dangerous haze had not entirely disappeared when Sir Malcolm decided he could wait no longer...
...play possesses many of the merits which it extolls; it is simple, homely, realistic. It is a worker's drama laid in a background of steel struts, huge cranes, belching steam-engines, stinking box-cars, wood, sand, and concrete. Rough, eager workers with rugged, seamed faces, and stick-like limbs garbed in coarse cloth toil, sweat, wonder, learn, and finally succeed. The most industrious brigade is awarded a banner, the laurel wreath of the worker's state. There is no pomp or glitter, little enough of comfort, many primitive growls and grunts, but no oratory: the whole tone is rough...
...saloon at Third Avenue and 130th Street greased his hair, breathed on his diamond stickpin and departed to pay his New Year calls, leaving the bar in charge of a 17-year-old Russian boy who was working nights in order to study art by daylight. It was a rough night, and to the Harlem barflies the boy looked easy. Shouting, swearing they demanded free drinks. The young bartender set up one on the house. That only made things worse. The boy, thoroughly frightened, snatched a revolver from the till and fired wildly over the crowd's heads. First...
...lecture courses. In this country, the term "seminar" has come to connote instruction of a highly advanced kind, as in the 20 courses whose primary concern is with research; but the Germans use the term liberally, and apply it to courses which are, relatively speaking, introductory. A rough counterpart of the latter "seminar" can be found in the better conference groups in History 1. The keynote of the German seminar is reduced size, individual attention, and consequent freedom from superficiality...