Word: ruggedness
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Shaped like a lion couchant, it harbored a colony of Barbary apes-the only wild monkeys in Europe-on its rugged back.
* In the winter of 1808-09, hearing that part of Napoleon's forces under General Soult were isolated in the north of Spain, Sir John Moore, though shy of men & materiel, set out through rugged country to cut Soult off. When Napoleon followed him, with his main Army, Sir...
Chungking ought to be the world's safest city in wartime. It is surrounded by terrain so rugged that it would be almost impossible to assault it by land. It is embraced by two treacherous rivers, whose water level has been known to change as much as 40 feet...
Last week, at a dinner in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Dr. Myerson displayed to a gathering of top-flight U. S. dentists his new invention: transparent-tipped, natural-looking false teeth set in ruddy gums of a new plastic material. Exhibit A was a beaming colleague, fitted with...
Joan Bennett has moved from "Green Hell" to "The House Across the Bay," but she still can't do much more than present a very pleasant appearance and some rather poor acting. This latest production of husband Walter Wanger finds her pining away for George "The Mug With a Good...