Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps ignore the grammatical ambiguity of whose personality structure will be strengthened, since a strong personality structure is only a rough technical equivalent for the good, the true, and the beautiful, and is therefore desirable in everybody...
Richard Welling, a strength-and-health-minded classmate, recalls that the two often had endurance contests. One occurred when they were skating on a bitterly cold afternoon at Fresh Pond. Their hands, ears, and toes were painfully cold, the ice was rough, and they were both poor skaters. There was no chance for a good talk, but Roosevelt kept saying, "Isn't this perfectly bully?" Not to be outdone, Welling had to agree. "I gritted my teeth," Welling said later, "resolved not to be the first to quit. It took every ounce of grit in me. One hour we skated...
Wynn called the varsity B squash team which plays MIT today, "one of the best in the league." He termed the league "a rough one," but predicted the varsity team, coached by Jack Barnaby, would do very well...
...Buck realized that he did not belong at Glenwood, and asked for parole. His requests were ignored. Free to go into town when he wanted, Buck could have simply gone over the hill. But the institutional pattern had been stamped too deep in him. Five years ago some rough-and-ready tests of inmates showed that Buck was far above the "moderate imbecile" level at which he had been graded on admission. But he was also judged too old to make a change...
...leaky autumn afternoon. They seemed determined to scuttle all the pregame dope. Tradition would have had them decked out in white jerseys-a nice counterpoint to Army's ominous black. They trotted out in powdery pastel blue. Tough as they were, they were supposed to have a rough time with Army's roughriding halfbacks, Pistol Pete Dawkins and Bullet Bob Anderson. But the first time Army got the ball, the two highly-touted cadets were tossed for a combined loss of seven yards...