Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon had somewhat spent itself in the stacks of Harry's Club, he couldn't resist going down to the old ship-yard just to take a look at his small cruising cutter. There it was tucked away in the corner of the big shed. It's bottom was rough and brown but a little work would fix it up, he thought--as he climbed over the side and stepped quietly into the cockpit. He put his hand on the tiller and moved it slowly back and forth. The compass read 247 degrees--west-south-west--the very direction...
Although superior in rowing technique than the 1937 crew at this time, Bolles still looks forward to sharpening up the catch and smoothing out an imperceptible check. Probably the race today will prove a splendid opportunity for ironing out the rough spots...
...Brancusi piece, entitled Sculpture for the Blind (see cut), was simply a large egg smoothly carved in marble and resting on a rough marble base. A blind person might find pleasure in feeling it. Hans Arp's rounded wood carving was called Sculpture Conjugate because his wife worked on it too. In defense of both, long, indignant letters began to uncurl in London newspapers. Director Guggenheim swore that she would pay the duty if necessary but the show must go on. Liberal members rose in the House of Commons and spoke haughtily of J. B. Manson. It may have...
...Chicago's International Amphitheatre last week, with 512 performers, 400 horses, 160,000 square feet of canvas, Tim McCoy's Real Wild West & Rough Riders of the World made its bow. In Chicago the show seemed good but raw, mingled surefire thrills with extravaganza that fell flat. Flattest of all fell McCoy's cherished pageantry stuff. Amazed, McCoy could only insist that "it has to be there. It's like candles and Christmas." What went over big, besides the imposing grand entry, was straight action: cowboys with lariats climaxed by McCoy himself roping eight horses with...
...millionaires who never let wealth change their mining-camp habits. How rare they are in the financial annals of other countries was demonstrated last week by the awed fashion in which Richard Lewinsohn (The Profits of War) wrote about the democratic simplicity of Barney Barnato, one of the roughest rough diamonds among South African diamond millionaires...