Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come a long way from the stinging defeats of 1932 and '36, but still finds its path endangered by the hazards of disunity and internal bickering. Back in the pre-depression days of conservative overlordship, the G.O.P. bigwigs could generally convene annually for their state-of-the-party log-roll, point with pride at the balance of the budget, view with alarm the radical tendencies of the radicals in Congress, orate at length, and hibernate for another year...
...They had the management get samples of all possible defects. They sewed the samples into a strip 75 yards long and put it on rollers. Then they had the No. 1 inspector teach them what to look for. They analyzed and sent for a green man. After watching the roll go by a few times he was calling the errors correctly. Dooley cherishes a letter which came in a few weeks later. Triumphantly, the manager reported Dooley was wrong: experience showed it took a whole day, not just half a day, to bring a new man up to a level...
...good news continued to roll in from world battlefronts last week, stock traders translated it into highly selective buy & sell orders reflecting confidence in the United Nations that welled up ten days before U.S. troops set foot in North Africa. Main trend: "peace stocks" boomed, "war stocks" slumped-and hedgers' stocks (like motors), which stand to benefit from both war and peace, stayed where they were, close to the year's highs...
...They are safely over the big fall hump of this year's freight traffic. They will roll up the dazzling total of 630 billion ton-miles this year-33%greater than last year, 89% more than...
...team that ranges from ten to 11 years and weighs from 70 to 110 pounds, is tailback Freddie Rhinelander from Jamaica Plain, who, according to Duble, runs, kicks, and teams up with Jeff Coolidge in a payoff passing attack. These two, with blocking back Ned Bliss, have contrived to roll up 89-0 and 18-6 scores in their first two tilts...