Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whitehall but by four British air marshals, charged respectively with bombers, fighters, coast-defense planes and spare or training ships. Since offense is now considered the only real defense against a major air raid on a great metropolis like London, the duty of Britain's bombers under rough & ready Air Marshal Sir John Miles Steel is presumably to get aloft as fast as possible and be raining Death on enemy towns before London can suffer too great loss...
...when it seemed the fight was winning and that the plane might be landed, you came back and warned your passengers that the landing would be rough. You unlocked the door so that all could escape from the burning plane. . . . You did this when your hands were burned to the bone. You could hardly hold the key. I pray God for the knowledge to understand for what purpose He saved my life by sacrificing yours...
...years, 31 people have been killed on the Indianapolis track. This year the roadbed, rough as a country lane, was widened at the turns. The outside retaining wall, through which cars used to pitch, was reinforced. Drivers wondered whether this change, designed to make the race safer, might not, by "kissing" cars back into the path of the field, merely serve to make it more spectacular. Last week's race indicated that the track had actually been improved. Although the pace was 3 m.p.h. faster than last year's, there was only one serious accident. Wooden-legged...
...breach with her own poll. While we may not have a choice for "best build" or "smoothest" we can certainly do justice to the assets of our own senior class and think up some fairly conclusive titles which will open the eyes of big business to the diamonds lying rough in the graduating body. Self promotion never hurts and if "biggest liar" of Class of '37 is called into a nationally known advertising firm or if "biggest bore" is eagerly sought as a political leader or as a college instructor, Harvard may feel that she has done her share. Placed...
...traveled and boarded thriftily, got many a free meal from gallant or hospitable foreigners. Whenever her money-belt grew thin she had no trouble getting a pleasant, well-paid job with some rich family, in London, Paris, Antibes, Cairo, Bombay, Barcelona, Madrid. Determined but optimistic, she took the rough with the smooth, enjoyed...