Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Resorting too frequently to the rough and tumble football tactics, the Varsity was at a loss in checking the deft offense of the experienced Cambridge University fifteen. It was Harvard's first meet of the season; Cambridge's twenty-seventh...
...game will be played under International rules which require 45 minute periods with no substitution. As a result, spectators are expected to see not only a rough but probably the best exhibition of rugby ever witnessed at Boston...
...councilman named Arthur Bernard Langlie. Seattle has since suffered from Dave Beck's vigorous assaults on the rising C. I. O. So by the time this year's municipal primaries rolled around, a rightist revolt was in the air. Mayor Dore sought re-election backed again by rough and ruddy Boss Beck and the A. F. of L.'s Lieut.-Governor Victor Aloysius Meyers, onetime jazzband leader who had enlivened previous candidacies with promises of hostesses on owl street cars and flower pots on fire hydrants, ran with the backing of the C. I. O., the organized...
Unprecedented in the ten years of Academy prize-giving was Actress Rainer's second successive Oscar in a three-year film career. She won last year's for her portrayal of Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld. Sandy, rough-cut Actor Spencer Tracy, recovering in a Los Angeles hospital from a hernia operation, wept when told he had won. Last year's Oscar to Actor Paul Muni (Louis Pasteur) disappointed many who thought Actor Tracy deserved it for a row of consistently fine jobs (among them: Father Tim in San Francisco, Joe Wilson in Fury). When this...
...total of 20 fouls were called during the first period as the play grew rough with each team fighting for the lead that was never more than four points. Following a set shot by Thomas from the side, Joe Batchelder sank two free throws to put the Indians out in front 18-17 for the first time...