Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...evening last week an elderly, scholarly gentleman at the railroad station in New Haven. Conn, was extricating himself as goodnaturedly as he could from beneath a commodious piece of brown headgear which had been shoved down over his ears, not by a Hallowe'ening undergraduate but by a hearty, rough-voiced, middle-aged man whom he did not know very well except that the name was Alfred Emanuel ("Al") Smith. After Mr. Smith of New York left town, Dr. Wilbur Lucius Cross reflected that his political baptism in the name of the Brown Derby was by far the most exciting...
...Montana. Princeton paleontologists under the leadership of Dr. Glenn L. Jepsen. digging in a cretaceous formation near Red Lodge in southern Montana, found some old broken eggs. They thought the eggs might have been laid 50 million years ago by an awkward dinosaur. The fragments were black, rough, pitted. Near the locality, in the same geological formation, the scientists were surprised to unearth the tooth of a mammal. Mammals are seldom found in cretaceous formations. Other dinosaur eggs known today were found seven years ago by Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews in Mongolia. His eggs were estimated to be several million...
...Harvard had had a good punter they might have made a tie out of the rough, awkward game they played with Dartmouth in a storm. The long kicks and occasional runs of Bill Morton of Dartmouth kept the Red-Shirts on the defensive and his touchdown through the left side of the Harvard line was the only one of the game. Dartmouth 7, Harvard...
Thus last week PRC perhaps moved a step nearer prosperity. And Drexel-Partner Newhall had new things to tell about PRC. But the anthracite road has become rough. Although most of the consumption is by domestic users (80%), therefore relatively steady, these users have been hard to hold. One reason is that the coal companies have had difficulty in making regular deliveries. This has made the consumers ready to accept such substitutes as gas, oil. Then too, imported coal has been mounting. The U. S. S. R. and Wales have been leading foreign sellers of coal...
...have seen a man beaten on the Adam's apple so that blood spurted from his mouth; I have seen another put in a dentist's chair and held there while the dentist, who seemed to enjoy his job, ground down a sound molar with a rough burr." Sometimes prisoners are threatened with death, shot at with blank cartridges...