Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hampshire squad, dominated by football players, has always been a fast and rough outfit. It enjoyed a very successful Southern trip and has tied the Boston Lacrosse Club, which over-powered the Crimson two weeks ago by a score...
...heavily romantic Symphony in B minor by Borodin, whose musical expression is starker and more rough-hewn than Liszt's, but similar in its unrestrained and often pompous emotionality, was sympathetically interpreted by the orchestra. Borodin often employs thick brass and woodwind textures in his scores, and the playing of these sections was particularly good. The objectionable thing here is the music itself, specifically the first movement, which is little more than the reiteration, ad nauseam, of a single motive. The rest of the symphony, although often cumbersome and awkward, is better...
...small business by allowing quick write-off of investment losses will be sent to Congress by President Eisenhower. Investors would be allowed to deduct all or large part of losses from taxable personal income in single year-current limit is $1,000 a year for five years. Bill faces rough going because it would most benefit high-income brackets...
...depth which was apparent in these matches showed that the Crimson would have more than Junta's individual brilliance to count on during the course of the season. The varsity will be very deep and should provide rough competition for any team it faces this year...
...Flowers. The company's dominance of the field comes from the more than half a century of rose-growing and selling experience of President Charles H. Perkins, 67. Apprenticed at twelve to an uncle who founded the company in 1872, Charlie Perkins bought control in 1928, had a rough time during the Depression, which put the company $875,000 in the hole. In 1940 he broke into the mail-order field, encouraged by a new U.S. patent law that allowed the patenting and collection of royalties on new rose varieties. For the first time rosarians had a financial incentive...