Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members of the Union Committee made a rough survey of people using the first level of the library and found that approximately 20 to 30 per cent of the students were from outside the University...
...Unbelievable." said Eddie Stanky of the touring St. Louis Cardinals. "He looked as if he could pitch another nine innings." Said Inao: "I was tired after three games, but I told myself to think of the old days when I rowed my father's tiny boat in rough seas. Now I feel like an emperor." His first project: a trip to the grave of his father (who died this year) there to report proudly: "Dear father, I have fulfilled our dream...
...cited the "Rough Rider's" belief that America's foreign policy "must rest on strength," and that "force should be at the back of righteousness...
...pole. Leading his own expedition in 1911, he discovered George V Coast; and on one of the most legendary Antarctic journeys, he was the only survivor among three men, at one point had to stew his sledge dogs to stay alive. In 1929 he made a third expedition that rough-mapped the coastline of Australia's Australia-sized land claim in Antarctica...
...child stricken with appendicitis, Pascoe crashes on a barren stretch of the Tasmanian coast. His skull is fractured, and he is tended only by the child's distraught mother, but his friends rally round. Chief of these is Ronnie Clarke, who volunteers to fly in a doctor through rough weather, over mountains and along the unmapped coast...