Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Equally rough was Pravda's reply last week to President Harry Truman's San Francisco speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Not Russia but the U.S., fumed the Kremlin mouthpiece, had blocked the path of peace. Truman's statements to the contrary were "rude, ridiculous pretensions [that] could originate only in the mind of a warmonger...
...movie about the College has been in the embryo stage since 1948. At that time John U. Munro, assistant to the Provost, William M. Pinkerton, director of the News Office, and David W. Bailey, secretary to the Corporation, wrote a very rough script which is now serving as a basis for the "March of Time" production. "More than likely, there'll be a completely new script by the time the movie in finished," Munro said last night...
...corners for classical curves and punch for prettiness. Picasso applied their principles to his Montmartre models, but he kept a respect for the realities of the human figure which the Africans never had. His Bergamo sketch was a tense, ebony-hard construction, half model and half idol. With such rough-cut works, Picasso had served notice that he preferred pioneering to perfecting...
...Georges Rouault's Nude had been done with just a few swirls of a heavily loaded ink brush. Her head was heavy and rough as rock, her breasts were like sheep's eyes, her puny thighs terminated in doughnut knees. But the picture's very crudeness gave it drama. Backed into a dark corner, the body was startlingly white. At first glance the brush work might seem clumsy as a calligraph drawn in a Chinese kindergarten, but it made space of the flat paper, and crammed it with fat, interlocked sausages of light...
Within a year, young Dr. Brown's fingers and nails showed signs of damage; his hands and face became rough and scaly. Soon warty growths appeared. But Dr. Brown kept on with his dangerous work, testing the value of X rays in the study of kidney stones, branching out to see what they could tell about disorders at the base of the skull. In France in World War I, he took X rays for operations to be performed by the late great Brain Surgeon Harvey Gushing. Dr. Brown worked day & night with virtually unshielded field equipment, ignoring the invisible...