Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course and lost, the plane's radio crackled out the dread letters PAN, emergency call of the air. Half hour later, fuel exhausted. Lieutenant Ulm landed on the water, sent out a frantic SOS.* Stella Australis could float for 48 hours in a calm sea. But the Pacific became rough and after 48 hours no trace of the Ulm plane had been found by 34 Army & Navy planes, 18 U. S. submarines, three minelayers, countless small craft. To spur the search, the Australian Government offered a $5,000 reward...
Last week crack athletes from Yale and Princeton went to Poughkeepsie, N. Y. to play field hockey-not against each other but against a team of Vassar College girls. The games were played on successive days. Yalemen, surprised by the rough tactics of their opponents, replied in kind. Vassar's captain was hit in the eye so hard she could not play against Princeton. Score: Yale 4, Yassar 0. Next day in the Princeton game a Vassar player had the wind knocked out of her, gamely resumed play. Sticks were broken, roughness was about equal on both sides. Miss...
...However rough the methods they may believe in or practice, few police chiefs dared declare themselves in open agreement with the New York Commissioner. "I suppose," said Frank J. Loesch, long time head of Chicago's Crime Commission, "that he is going on the theory that violence is the only law such criminals know. The difficulty with the policy is, however ... it is likely to brutalize the police." In Kansas City, County Prosecutor W. W. Graves Jr. raised the stock objection that courtroom evidence of police brutality usually moves juries to acquit. "No policeman is justified in using brutality simply...
...Brown is accustomed to produce successful musicals and his current effort, "Calling All Stars," now at the Shubert, is no exception to the rule. It is a colorful, fast moving, and highly amusing revue which has been pleasing large audiences since its arrival in town last week. A bit rough at the start, the show has been improved by careful cutting and is now a finished revue with lots to offer to those who are addicted to this hilarious sort of entertainment. As its title would suggest, the show is predicated upon the assumption that lots of varied talent...
...tegmina, useless for flight, but used for producing its song. The under surface of the wing is covered with minute, (148 per millimeter) file-like projections which are scraped by a hardened, raised portion on the inner edge of the tegmina. The cricket draws this scraper edge across the rough under-part of the wing cover at a rate of 16 1-3 times per second, if the complete back and forth wing movement is counted as one, rather than as two, motions...