Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...problem was difficult. The crooked Tennessee River had to be passed, as well as rough mountainous country. The most direct road was to move around the town, north of the river, and attack from the northeast. But this road was long and far from the base of supplies. Moreover, Bragg expected the attack in that quarter...
...conceal the movement Crittenden was sent far round, by the first road to attract Bragg's attention. And just here was the fatal mistake. The Union line was drawn out for 50 miles, over rough, hostile country. McCook, on the right, was several days' march distant from Thomas, in the centre. Now Bragg suddenly evacuated Chattanooga and appeared, with his whole force of 50,000, opposite Thomas. If he had attacked then, he would have won a complete victory...
Vicksburg was especially strong, the Gibralter of America. Impregnable on the river front, with its steep descent, it was protected by a maze of swamps on the north and rough coutry everywhere else. The strong outposts, Haines's Bluff, and Grand Gulf, above and below well guarded its flanks...
Moliere therefore resolved to attack the whole medical system from the stage. In this play, Le Malade Imaginaire, he has let loose the full force of his stinging satire, ridiculing to the utmost the ignorant doctors, their rough, crude methods, their bleedings, and purgatives, and above all their quackery and pretensions to knowledge. The great difficulty was to handle so repulsive a subject in such a way as to make it agreeable, and in this, Moliere succeeded to an astonishing degree, without one whit weakening his attack...
...course, at first over very rough ground, was out Boylston street, across the marshes, through Allston, and over Corey Hill to the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. At this point the scent was lost, owing to the darkness, and the pack of 17 turned back to Cambridge, reaching home an hour and forty minutes after the start. A. Ingersoll '96, was first, H. W. Foote '97, second, and F. L. Waldo '98, third. The first two were close together. Fourteen minutes later, the hares, D. Grant, Sp., and A. W. Blakemore '98, appeared, having run around the reservoirs, through Brookline and into...