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Word: roughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deadliest men. Middlecoff's winning 286 was two strokes over par, a rarity in this par-smashing age. The tall (6 ft. 2 in., 180 _lb.) Tennessean pro, who looks a little' like Baseballer Ted Williams, had won by playing safe; he was in the rough off the tee only four times in 72 holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Damned Seventeenth | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...superior, Claire Chennault. When World War II came, stubborn Squeaky Burwell got his chance to fly in combat and as a transport pilot in China. One day he found among his passengers General Claire Chennault. "Brother," said Burwell, "you better get out. It's going to be a rough ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Flying Tours | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

During the depression, Bank of America and Transamerica found the going rough. Transamerica's stock plunged from a 1929 high of 67 to 2. But A.P., always full of optimism, kept right on expanding, and thus was ready for California's war boom. In 1945, Bank of America rose to the proud position of world's largest private bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Retirement for A.P. | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Since the pitching surface is rough, the experts find the best technique is to encircle the penny with the index finger and then roll it in the general direction of the ledge, preferably with a sweeping motion from the side which is more conductive to learners. On a smooth surface, a tossing, rather than a rolling method is recommended, but on a rough surface one never knows which way the penny will bounce when it lands...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: They're Off and Rolling in Lowell's Courtyard! | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

Right Down Main Street. The folks around Parnell remember young Ben as a rough one. Quick as a cat and strong.as a bull, he could lick any young buck in the county, and frequently did, and he would bet on anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Devil Red & Plain Ben | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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