Word: ruggedness
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Whether he meant to or not, Mr. Hoover thereby injected one more catch-phrase into the forthcoming constitutional contest-"a change to a European form of government." Apparently the man who called Prohibition a "noble experiment" (literally "an experiment noble in motive") and who harped for four years on "rugged...
The surveyors will live the same rugged life at Squam Lake. Hired cooks, it is learned, however, will prepare the camp meals.
The newspaper with the world's biggest circulation is published in London: not by the blustery Rothermere (see p. 21), not by the brilliant, impish Beaverbrook nor by the rugged Camrose. Those three -particularly the first two-are conspicuous national characters, living richly in town and country, moving momentously...
Last week the Bronx Zoo's director William Reid Blair generously observed: "Persons who feed such things to animals are merely curious, not malicious. They are unable to understand that an animal's digestive system does not necessarily grow more rugged as its size increases."
Difficulties this time centered in the Yard, where the Red Reaper took a running start and sent 34 rugged first year men up the river before Dr. Means had time to swing the reinforcements into line.