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Word: roughs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle of Kula Gulf, which he watched from the bridge of the engaged cruiser St. Louis. The way he felt about it became the title of his book on the war in the Pacific: With My Heart in My Mouth. Taylor Is inclined to believe that some sort of rough justice is indicated by the fact that soon after returning unscathed from the Pacific an icicle from the 33rd floor of the TIME & LIFE Building scored a direct hit on his head and laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...There was none of this rough stuff in my day," he said. "We had only three men to police the whole University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Yard Cop Misses Good Old Beery Days | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

...with introspection and now contents himself with satiring man's stupidities and vanities. At any rate were seldom encounter ourselves in the cartoons. It seems that the trial of gazing on this chaos within and without has left him too weak to finish off his sketches, for they remain rough lines and only half grayed in. Abner Dean's world in all its nakedness is still good for a shutter if not so good for a laugh...

Author: By Daniel B. Jacobs, | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...sales and profits. Not all Studebaker dealers liked the 1950 models which came out last August. Some did not like the rocketlike hood and nose air intake that resembles the 1949 Ford. But Loewy's answer is in the sales. While most other independent car-makers were having rough going, Stukebaker sold more cars in September than any month in its history. From receivership less than 15 years ago, Studebaker has climbed back, is now the biggest independent-a smaller fourth to the Big Three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Up from the Egg | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Since Australia was a place where no questions were asked, Cotten soon became a financial success, but failed to gain social recognition because of his rough manners. This combination of circumstances caused Ingrid Bergman to be very despondent and constantly drunk, until the "other man" played by Michael Wilding, came along. After helping her back to sanity, making a pass, and surviving an accidental bullet in his belly, Wilding went back to England, leaving the couple to relative happiness as they walked into the sunset...

Author: By Edmond A. Levy, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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