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Word: roughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...post a respectable score against the Crimson, and the only thing that kept the Friars from making things really close for the varsity was their lack of depth. Many Ivy League teams may have sufficient second-line material to give Coach Bill McCurdy's perenially powerful team a rough treatment...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Varsity Harriers Romp in Opener | 10/7/1959 | See Source »

...regime will begin its season against Providence College and Boston University this afternoon in Franklin Park. Providence has the nucleus of a strong 1958 team back this year, but, as McCurdy said yesterday, "if the varsity can't take this meet in stride, it's due for a rough season...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Varsity Harriers Open Season In Triangular Meeting Today | 10/6/1959 | See Source »

...smoothly involuted forms look like Moore's women without the womanliness; they are more like analytical geometry than like people. More powerful are the forged iron abstractions of Italy's Francesco Somaini, at 33 a newcomer to the big time, who won the prize for the best foreign sculptor. Rough, inelegant for an Italian, Somaini produces work resembling meteorites and mountains, full of energy but at the same time monumental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sao Paulo Harvest | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...Center. Actually, the times have changed more than Aalto. His use of traditional materials-wood, brick, copper-and rough textures now seems a welcome antidote to too much slickness and gloss. Aalto still insists as firmly as ever: "Architecture-the real thing-is only to be found when man stands in the center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: PRICKLY INDIVIDUALIST: FINLAND'S AALTO | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...oversentimentality that could so easily bog down an enterprise of this kind. Second, the rest of the cast, particularly Patricia Neal as Helen's mother and James Congdon as her half-brother, is very fine. Certain minor defects are also obscured: Torin Thatcher, as Helen's father, is rather rough and overly blustery; both the second and final curtains could use a little tightening...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: The Miracle Worker | 10/2/1959 | See Source »

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