Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When World War I came, Eddie enlisted, wangled a job as chauffeur to General John J. Pershing. He drove him to the front lines only once. As a flyer Eddie was resourceful, by turns cautious and daring. No U.S. flyer learned so well the corkscrew roll which enabled him to see ahead, behind, above, below and to the side; none topped his bag of 21 German planes and four balloons...
...engineers began pulling out the twisted bridge section while the tank company held a roll call in the cornfield. Six men were missing. Said a hard-as-steel, greasy young man leaning against his tank: "They was good guys...
...became a genius of flood control without an engineering degree; still without degree he became a college president (Antioch, 1920) to promote the educational philosophy that a degree in theory hampers the success of many a man by limiting his imagination to the record of accomplishment certified on his roll of parchment: "the textbooks you've digested have told you how things have been done which is how they should be done...
Andover boasts an experienced, hard-driving backfield headed by tailback Dick Duden, who happens to be captain of the football team, captain of the basketball team, president of the Senior class, president of the Student Council, and on the honor roll. While on the gridiron he confines his efforts to running, passing, and a bit of kicking...
...flag and kept its Chinese students right up to Pearl Harbor. When the Japs seized the college, students and faculty lit out for West China. One group of nine, trapped in a village surrounded by Japanese, were rescued by a timely guerrilla raid. Another party, penniless, found a roll of bedding on a train, turned it in to the Y.M.C.A. They were rewarded with $2,000 by a merchant who had lost it-hidden in the roll...