Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month on her way across the U. S. from California to Florida the U. S. S. Macon got into rough air over Texas, broke two small girders, proceeded to Miami for repairs. Last week she set out to join the U. S. fleet in the Caribbean for maneuvers. Through a fog of military secrecy leaked news that not only had the Macon been "destroyed" by "enemy" aircraft, but also she had again suffered actual damage...
...wanted to see a game. And I did. Two hours at Baker Field. Cambridge v. All-East (U.S.). Unremitting torrential rain. I now have a beautiful cold, so have my wife and child. A game I was not sure I grasped. But I loved it. It was fast, hard, rough, exciting, interesting, sporting, human...
...another, for the things we love, as well as things that are only privileges, will have to go. The first changes will have to do with statutes, with constitution, with government. We shall be changing once for all and it will require the laying of rough unholy hands on many a precedent. . . . The future is becoming visible in Russia. . . . There is no private business exempt from compulsion to serve a planned public interest. The essence of business in its free venture for profits is unregulated economy. Planning implies guidance to all business. To take away from business its freedom...
Rowing a fairly fast time for rough water the Browne and Nichols crew defeated the first Freshman 150-pound crew by three lengths in the race Saturday afternoon over the regulation Henley course. The Black and White crew was a half length ahead after the first half-mile when the 150 crow's No. 7 man caught a minor crab and although he recovered from it the strain later caused the rigger to break, making the car utterly useless. The time for the winning boat was seven minutes and seventeen seconds for the mile and five-sixteenths...
When the two Presidents posed for photographers both smiled readily. President Roosevelt had smoothed off one of the last rough spots in Latin-American relations. President Vincent had something to show the boys back home...