Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...football coaches and expenses, when games are broadcasted or not broadcasted, according to financial benefit, when former Harvard graduates and present undergraduates are deprived of seeing and enjoying afternoons of football of their own Alma Mater, and when you go to the games Saturday afternoon in a rough, hustling, jostling crowd, it calls to my mind more a motley crowd at a prize fight in the old days of Coney Island than an intercollegiate athletic event...
...Journal helped make U. S. history. Published twice a week, its most famed feature was a column called "The Federalist." which contained editorials written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay. Last week in Manhattan, the Columbia School of Journalism revived The Independent Journal. Printed on four sheets of rough paper, the new edition copied the make-up of the old as closely as possible...
...enthusiastic vulgarian with far better control of her instincts offstage than on. Actress West seldom drinks, smokes denicotinized cigarets. Until she reached Hollywood, she improvised her plays in rehearsal from rough notes; her ambition as a playwright was to win the Pulitzer Prize. Padded in most of her pictures. Mae West's real dimensions are: height 5 ft. 5 in., weight 120 lb., waist 26 in., hips 36 in., bust 36 in. She likes diamonds, rare beefsteaks, racehorses, of which she recently acquired a stable of three. Her next picture for Paramount will...
Last year a CRIMSON editorial expressed the popular dissatisfaction with the acoustics of the Memorial Church and pointed out the necessary improvements, of which only a bare minimum has been carried out. Beside the insoluble difficulty of the architecture itself, the original problem was twofold; heavy carpets and rough plaster finish both absorbed sound, prevented resonance, and generally marred the performances of a capable choir. Some of the carpet has now been taken up, but conditions remain so bad that cushionless pews must be resorted to for the Sunday service, and still it is impossible for the choir to realize...
...summer of 1822 Fort Mackinac, Michigan Army and fur-trading post, was a rough, brawling, drunken community of about 5,000 Indians, French-Canadians and half-breeds spending the proceeds of their winter fur catches. Only doctor within a 300-mi. radius was William Beaumont, an Army surgeon who meticulously recorded in a diary every medical tittle and jot he performed. For June 6, 1822, the entry, now a precious incunabulum in the history of U. S. Medicine, reads...