Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sentimental. U. S. citizens like to patronize U. S. industry. Particularly do they like to honor the late great President Theodore Roosevelt, friend of Cuba, rugged rissaldar of Rough Riders at San Juan Hill...
...Rough checking by both teams marked the third period play as the Crimson carried the attack to the Toronto goal. Time and again the Harvard offensive broke on the stalwart opposing defensive pair. What seemed to be a certain Crimson scoring chance was blasted when Captain Whitehead hurled his stick across the ice to knock the puck away from Tudor...
Terrible Things! Ensconced at the Ritz, last week, Grand Duke Alexander said, in fluent but slightly stilted English: "A proletarian visited me this morning. Yes, a proletarian-the clothes very rough and dirty! He had just returned from Russia. He told me terrible things! . . . But I look-the Imperial Family looks-for a change...
...They called him a monk but he was no holy man. He was a peasant-so rough and dirty-and so he was spoiled. He wanted all he could get, and so there was much intrigue. But what were called his 'orgies' were always far away from the Imperial Family...
...whole progress of nature is so gradual, that the entire chasm from a plant to a man, is filled up with divers kinds of creatures, rising one above another, by so gentle an ascent, that the transitions from one species to another are almost insensible. . . . The ape is this rough draught of man: this rude sketch. . . ." Indeed Wesley had written A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation: or, A Compendium of Natural Philosophy. But he did not altogether desert superstition for science: among the 725 prescriptions for 243 diseases listed in his Primitive Physick: or, An Easy...