Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Charles River until late in March and rough water since then have prevented the Freshman crews from getting the early season mileage so necessary for a winning crew. As a result, with the Rowe Cup regatta only a week and a half away, Coach Harvey Love has yet to find the best eight men for the first boat...
Work on the machines and in the tank this winter has helped from out the rough points in form, but a smooth running eight like last year's Freshman boat is still many miles away...
...show them how safe Glmite was by setting fire to it, shooting a 30/30 bullet through it, firing charges of it from a trench mortar against a steel plate, lob bing a shellful in the direction of his nervous audience - who ducked behind a sandbag barricade. None of this rough treatment incited Mr. Barlow's Glmite to explode...
Count Ciano made his position unassailably strong when he got a rough-&-tumble pal of Ethiopian days, much-decorated Ettore Muti, appointed to Starace's job. Muti looks like a handsome U. S. gangster, and, not being too quick of brain or tongue, is the subject of merciless punning (muto = dumb). Last week Signor Muti had a gold medal pinned on his chest by Il Duce for having carried out 160 admirable bombing raids during the Spanish campaign...
...Yonne just below Montereau it is possible to navigate that stream to the Armanc,on, continue by canal south to Dijon, thence by another canal into the Saone, which flows into the broad, Alp-born Rhone, which enters the Mediterranean just west of Marseille, thus cutting off a long, rough trip around Spain. From photographs taken from a bridge in Paris, the British sea wasps for Rumania looked like 70-ft. Vospers, each mounting two 21-inch torpedo tubes, powered with three 1,150-h.p. motors and two auxiliary engines for sneak-up work at nine knots. The boats were...