Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inexplicable to many is the ability of wrestlers night after night to heave each other around, bounce outside the ring onto concrete floors, go through seeming agonies. Rough & tough anyway and reinforced by several layers of fat, wrestlers have learned how to fall, when to fall, how to fake, when to call quits. Consequently they escape with few injuries beyond strains & bruises...
...paper the Crimson chances against two such good crews are not so good, but it is an undeniable fact that the rough water, particularly in the Columbia race when the Harvard boat had three or four inches of water in it when it reached the bridge, has prevented Captain Clark's outfit from getting a fair trail under average conditions. During the past week Whiteside has been endeavoring to remedy the washing out or light finish which appeared to be one of the main faults in the Columbia race. The crew is in fine condition, with divisional over, and with...
...odds since 1918. Bold Venture earned $37,725, got a blanket of roses, the privilege of having his name on the Churchill Downs gate five panels away from that of his half-brother Twenty Grand, winner in 1931. Jockey Hanford, undismayed by a 15-day suspension given him for "rough riding," chortled: "They've suspended me? They've set me down? Well, I guess I'll go out in the barn and spend the 15 days feeding sugar to that horse...
...Michigan Aggies (now Michigan State) 18 to 16. He had been active in Y. M. C. A. work, sprinted on the track squad, joined Zeta Sigma (local), and marched with the Cadets. To top it all, he had gone off in his senior year with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders to fight the Spaniards. Now, in 1898, he was about to get married to a campus sweetheart and start working on a newspaper...
...Wartime losers who now propose to shrug off their post-war penalties, Turkey had picked the best time to make the best case. Germany last month had provided a fine, fresh precedent by its rough & ready remilitarization of the Rhineland. The permanent security of the Dardanelles had been guaranteed jointly at Lausanne by Britain, France and Italy, all three of whom were in a serious snarl last week at Geneva. Turks had a firm friend and warm supporter in France's new ally, Soviet Russia, which would secretly like to see the Dardanelles fortified against the navies of capitalist...