Word: roughness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Having seen Harvard freshmen and the junior varsity-in which Franklin D. Jr. rowed No. 4-beaten by Yale crews, from the referee's launch, the President did not wait to see the Harvard varsity beaten again in a race that was postponed one day because of rough water (see p. 52). Instead he returned to Hyde Park for a secluded weekend, went to Manhattan to have dinner at his house on East 65th Street, continued on to Washington to demand immediate enactment of his tax proposals...
...Haggard maintained that the odors were due to particles of the vegetables or flecks of their essential oils sticking inside the mouth, especially to the rough base of the tongue. If that were so, he was reasonably sure that he could remove all offensive odors by gargling with a cheap deodorant like chloramine. Reason for Dr. Haggard's confidence: He had been ''able to remove quickly from the skin all trace of the odor from the discharge of a skunk (accidentally received) with the use of a strong suspension of chlorinated lime in water...
After crossing the land of the Nham-biquaras, whose complete nudity failed to offend the hard-bitten colonel, Roosevelt, Rondon, the others and a troop of native porters and boatmen found the headwaters of the Rio da Dúvida and started down it in rough dugout canoes. The river, winding northward through precipitous canyons toward the Equator, almost beat them. There were grueling portages around roaring rapids. Fever and bloodsucking insects sapped their strength. Once, when a whirlpool caught a canoe, a porter was drowned and Kermit nearly perished. They eked out their provisions by eating monkeys, Brazil nuts...
...American Clipper rose from the waters of San Francisco Bay, headed off on her second flight to Honolulu. The trip had been purposely delayed to await a storm forecast-a test of the Clipper's mettle. That night the great Sikorsky flew under cloudy skies over the rough Pacific until at dawn the light of Makapu Point reached out across Koneohe Bay. Then Oahu Bay appeared and First Officer Sullivan set her 19 tons down lightly in Pearl Harbor...
...gradually filling in personality as the plot unravels and the strand of one character's life crosses and re-crosses that of another. In this he is not uniformly successful. But his drawing of Andrew, a complete individual who slowly falls in love with Greta, the wife of the rough, romantic Sandy, and his picture of Sandy himself are full-bodied and living...