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Word: ruggeder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rugged Shansi Province has for over two years been the key to the entire war in North China. Against it the Japanese have successively hurled three major campaigns and many little ones-all of which have blown up like light bulbs thrown against a wall. Because the province is as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Eagles in Shansi | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Captain Bill Daughaday's presence in the 165 bracket renders opposition somewhat useless, but Art Mason provides what competition there is for the rugged leader. And there would be more if Coach Johnson didn't deem it advisable to keep Bunny Barnes out of mat wars because of a pair...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: What's His Number? | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

1) That Peary, a man of 53, by no means rugged, minus several toes lost on a previous expedition, could not possibly have sledged 150 airline miles in 56 hours over rough pack ice; that Cook did not claim much more than 15 miles a day.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gold Brick? | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Frank Johnson Goodnow, 80, learned, rugged president-emeritus of Johns Hopkins University (president 1914-29), after long illness; in Baltimore, Md. For two years Dr. Goodnow was legal and constitutional adviser to the first government of the Chinese Republic.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Rugged Pitcairn Island, the seagirt Pacific refuge of H. M. S. Bounty's, storied mutineers, heard nothing of Britain's last war until months after the outbreak. Word of it was finally brought to Bounty Bay by the crew of a Tahitian tramp. That was before a best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pitcairn's Plight | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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