Word: roughness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That Eastern collegiate basketball is superior, the game decidedly did not prove. What it did prove was that on occasions basketball can be as rough as its winter brother, hockey; that both Purdue and N. Y. U. are powerful contenders for the Olympic eliminations in April; that the game will not long be immune to professionalism and overemphasis...
...warped the ship into its berth. A platoon of muttering bobbies carved a lane through the throng, stood in two rows staring into each other's faces. Charles and Anne Lindbergh, pale, came swiftly down the gangplank. A scattered, throaty cheer went up. Some of the men in rough clothes raised their caps. Anne Lindbergh smiled wanly. The day was so dark that the photographers flashed their bulbs. Jon, in his father's arms, blinked, then buried his face in the grey-plaid shoulder. The tall man and the small woman moved quickly through the sheds, popped into...
Miss Hayes was not to be so easily sidetracked from the silver screen. "You know how dames are," says her rough-&-ready husband, who at that time was already a well-known Hollywood writer. "They go to see a picture, look up at the doll on the screen and say to themselves: 'What the hell, anything she can do I can do.' " What Helen Hayes subsequently did in Hollywood won her one of the little gold statuettes which are the topnotch mark of merit of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, for her performance...
...This sledging through rough country was hard work," Washburn said, "and was not that Clark Gable-Loretta Young type, with a basket on the sledge, and the rider all wrapped up in fur robes. Either you push the sledge from behind, or when you get too tired to do that, you would go forward to break the trail...
...short term forecasting of snowstorms, certain clouds foretell a day ahead and give rough indications of when the snowfall will begin, how heavy it will be, and how long it will last. The clouds which have been found most useful for weather predictions are feathery formations of snow crystals called "cirrus," and are ordinarily from four to six miles above the ground...