Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage in this country has had a long youth and a great opportunity for experimentation. It has prospered through the ability of the actors to fall on their feet. Until recent years the great majority of the players have had little education outside the rough and tumble school of the theatre. Through such a life the actor has broadened surprisingly...
...your editorial has gathered what little knowledge he has from the mutterings of partisan papers. There was no talk of "executive persecution" when Senator Cameron or the Atlanta officials were prosecuted; and there would be less in the present case if we withheld our judgments until we made a rough examination of the facts. At least we would not see the Department of Justice as an instrument "for personal or party revenge." L. H. Stone...
...University squad, will leave for Annapolis Thursday night, and arrive in Annapolis for at least one row on Friday, and possibly two. A new course has been surveyed on the Severn, and is used this year for the first time. In former years, rough water has frequently handicapped the boats, and delayed the time for starting races, but the new course is reported to secure the most favorable conditions...
...Junior University and Freshman races, the Red and Blue oars of Pennsylvania earned decisive wins, with Harvard second, M. I. T. third, and Cornell fourth. These races were shortened to the Henley distance because of rough water, and the Quaker eights displayed a powerful and a finished stroke in coming through a winner in both of these races...
...until 8 o'clock that the boats lined up to wait for the gun to start the final race on Saturday, for rough water had necessitated the postponing of the starting time. Cornell was left a length behind in the first hundred yards after the starting signal, and although Coach Haines Technology outfit made a strong bid to stay in the race for a time, it was evident that the contest lay between the Crimson and the Red and Blue crews...