Word: ruggedness
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The brotherhoods, forged in the fires and blood of the 1877 rail strikes (see cut), now are rich, conservative, and strictly disciplined. Whitney and Johnston typify the transition. Each is a proud, rugged individualist who rules his tight little empire with strong hands, who has settled himself at the top...
Hugh Diman was a rugged, ruddy Episcopal minister of a fashionable Rhode Island summer church. In 1896 he decided to become a schoolmaster. He had one master and eleven pupils when he started "Diman's School for Small Boys" in Newport, R.I. Gradually his posh Newport parishioners sent him...
California Democrats had been cautioned by Attorney General Bob Kenny to treat each other with "mutual respect" in the June 4 primaries and save their spleen for Republicans in the fall. But last week both disrespect and discord cropped up. Most of the Democratic regulars were backing ex-Congressman Will...
Mauna Loa was ticking like a time bomb. Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar, a rugged old master of volcanology at the University of Hawaii, would not venture a guess on the day or month Mauna Loa would erupt, but according to his charts and records, 1946 is a climactic year in...
Even at the start, Ricardo was a better sort of man than most of his fellow colonists. To these rough, tough Spaniards, many of whom had fought as conquistadors, brutal subjugation of the Indians seemed the obvious and only way to solve the vast problems of the huge, semitropical land...