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Word: ruggeder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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That police had finally nailed John Torrio on an ordinary revenue law violation seemed thoroughly in keeping with that gangster's fabulous career. A small-time tough who operated an East Side poolroom in Manhattan before the War, Torrio rose to be a rugged member of Brooklyn's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old Tough | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

If the effort to induce cooperation in the soil conservation indirect method of crop control fails of substantial support it would seem even possible that a farmer demand for a constitutional amendment approach to the problem might take shape at Philadelphia. It is certainly hardly to be expected at the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wallace Will Defend Belief That High Prices Are Only Means of Providing Farmers Fair Return, at Princeton | 4/29/1936 | See Source »

One night last week the British-operated Ferrocarril Mexicano's night train from the port of Veracruz to Mexico City took on an oil-burning locomotive at Paso del Macho, began to wind its slow way through the rugged uplands toward the 7,400-ft.-high capital. When the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bomb at Bridge | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

Just as there is something quite rugged about a sailor's wooden Virgin-doll, so is there a robust tang in this picture's sentiment, wherein Shirley weeps over just such a doll because Captain January gave it to her and she has been taken away from him. And the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 4/8/1936 | See Source »

Sloping up from the narrow Atlantic coastal plain, the Eastern U.S. rears abruptly in the great earth-wrinkles of the Appalachian Highlands, stretching northeast to southwest from New England to Alabama. When early U. S. settlers pushed out from the coast into this rugged region, they built their towns, for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Hell in the Highlands | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

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