Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greenland for an open space; it was also possible that Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Quest, might be used as an icebreaker. There still remained the alternative of breaking the flight from Reykjavik by refueling in the open sea- none too pleasant to contemplate in these rough waters...
...poor alike of the two countries principally concerned. The marble will be the joint gift of the owners of the quarries. Although the project calls for a statue that will be the most colossal ever carved of marble, the dominant characteristic of the monument is to be dignity and rough-hewn simplicity. The work should be completed within three years...
...Stony Point stage is to be built of rough stone, and will equal that of the Metropolitan in size. The theatre will be of Greek or open-air type. Seats will be provided for 600, but 12,000 to 15,000 more will be able to watch the performances from the adjacent grassy slopes. There will also be dormitories and a library of music and folklore. Maestro Rabinoff, who lives nearby, has already built the "largest scenic studio in the world" on the spot. Here have been painted several of those canvases which subsequently flapped so merrily in the backstage...
...shuffle. Her feminine friends within her own party cattily try to dig their claws into her. She mortgages her home up to the hilt, although the woman treasurer of her party has blandly decided that there will be no campaign expenses whatsoever. In the end it is a rough and ready politician of the practical school, skilled in all the ruses and handshaking diplomacy of the Old Guard, who saves her from defeat by the naive expedient of voting a large number of dead...
...London, Connecticut, June 3, 1924.--A high wind made the waters of the Thames so rough here today that the Freshman crew nearly swamped when it attempted its regular morning workout at 11 o'clock. Instead of putting the two University boats through their morning paces, Coach Stevens took each University crew man out in a two-oared shell, himself pulling the oar not used by the student oarsman...