Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...massive box 40 ft. by 60 ft., with top and sides of 25-in. steel and concrete. It rests on bedrock and is enclosed by a granite and concrete building topped with a bombproof roof. An invading army that lands on the Atlantic coast will have 600 rough miles to travel before it reaches Fort Knox. Common thieves will have to outwit and outfight a detachment of 24 Mint guards in "pill boxes" at the building's four corners and the entire Seventh Cavalry brigade outside. When 20 or more similar shipments are completed in the next few months...
...plane works away stiff-legged and importantly over the rough ground. Like an ill-tempered old somebody awakened too early, she shrugs her shoulders from side to side as each wheel sinks into...
...settle down to the business of climbing. The Cyclone is getting rough. A bit of heat in the carburetor and a little tinkering with the air mixture. It's smooth again. At 18,000 feet the cold is growing disagreeable...
...plays an occasional round of golf, goes duck-shooting several times each season. One of these forays occurred one afternoon early last month. He and his shooting crony, Rev. ZëBarney Phillips, chaplain of the Senate, went down to the Deep Hole Point Club, a rough wooden shack on the "Old Dawdon Place" near Occoquan, Va., 35 mi. southwest of Washington...
...these an Australian, Mr. William H. Donald, was in every sense news. Many years ago the health of his wife made it best for her to return to Australia, and in China her increasingly polished rough-diamond husband, as the years rolled on, perhaps killed more ladies (in the complimentary, Edwardian sense of "lady-killing") than any other man in China's swift, hard, cheap, international Shanghai-Peiping set. On being invited some years ago to a party in Peking for an appetizing blonde who had arrived bearing an introduction which she said was signed by the wealthiest...