Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could produce, there was a spunky young Assistant Secretary of the Navy at Washington who demanded that the U. S. fleet put on its fighting clothes. Then the Maine exploded like a bad dream; war came. The fleet was ready for Santiago and Manila; the Assistant Secretary became a Rough Rider. After that he became innumerable things- among them, President...
...Tiger jinx again followed a fighting Harvard football team on Saturday. The Crimson eleven, seldom emerging from its own territory, was completely stopped by a fast, hard line and in turn out-rushed and out-scored by the elusive Princeton backs. The game was marked by rough, aggressive play and the University squad left the field, weakened by the temporary loss at least of three of its best men, and defeated...
...visitors forced the play from the start of hostilities, adopting rough, rushing tactics that kept the ball in Harvard territory during the first period and the greeter part of the second. Not until late in the first half did the University aggregation get under way, and succeed in holding the Orange and Black on more even terms...
While the University eleven was riding rough-shod over Tufts, the Freshman team was forced to face a stiff fight to down the Holy Cross Freshmen, 14 to 0. Outweighed by their opponents, the Purple gridmen played a determined game of football, and kept down a score which, on the merits of team ability alone, might have been larger...
...professional magazines of his acquaintance, there was an article on a subject much favored by the editors of the "quality group" of magazines for the moment, education to wit; the poetry would have been creditable to any of the reviews. There were, of course, weaknesses in the sheet, rough places, passages that betrayed the undergraduate writer--but on the other hand there were no traces of that distressfully professional journalism which one finds so often in a magazine that cost thirty-five cents or half a dollar. The supplementary departments, too, he found creditable, the editorials, book reviews and theatre...