Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.-Robert Falcon Scott...
...Olympic, launched in 1911, are still in transatlantic trade. But the Minnetonka and Minnewaska, built for comfort in an age of speed, took eight days from New York to London.* Comparatively exclusive, they carried only 400 one-class passengers in cabins amidships. Biggest cargo ships afloat, they rode rough seas smoothly. But they were slow, and because they were slow International Mercantile Marine sold them to the "knackers" last week for 4? on the dollar-$12,000,000 worth of steel & iron & wood for less than...
...such, he might be expected to favor low leaf prices. But this far-seeing Kentuckian, who once was a grocery salesman, seized the opportunity to publicize his interest in a square deal for Kentucky tobacco farmers regardless of the consequences to him or his company. From behind a rough-hewn speaker's table in the warehouse he declared: "The leaders of the AAA are honest, earnest men and not politicians....I would urge your continued co-operation with these men...." Espousing New Deal economics, the man who threw a scare into big tobaccomen two years ago with...
...almost impossible to pick out individually memorable shots. Among the best are: General Galliéni's army hurrying out of Paris to the First Battle of the Marne in Renault taxis; the Austrian flagship St. Stephan sinking in a flat Adriatic dotted with drowning bodies; the rough pencil line of a French army drawn across the snow-covered Vosges Mountains; a U. S. division crossing No Man's Land through machinegun fire; the captain of a German submarine ordering his crew to discharge a torpedo; Lenin waving his hands and snickering. The picture ends in a scornful...
When Theodore Roosevelt rough-rode up San Juan Hill, Frank Richardson Kent was starting as a political reporter on the Baltimore Sim. Today this small, smart newshawk is one of the country's most famed commentators on political Washington. No key-hole gossip, he makes Democrats and Republicans alike quake with his breezy invective and the tart sagacity he packs into his daily column, "The Great Game of Politics," is quoted from ocean to ocean. Yet until lately Frank Kent could be read in full nowhere except in the Baltimore...