Word: roll
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...refugees, made shrewd by wars and revolutions, long ago discovered a special value in art-namely, it is the most golden of all gilt-edged investments. Buying by wealthy refugees last season set Manhattan's 57th Street galleries and auction houses humming like stock exchanges, helped roll up the biggest art business since...
...week executives who never get their names in the papers. At the top rank of these good executives and just below the big headliners are the little headliners. They are a few dozen men of key importance who have already qualified for Washington's World War II roll of honor. Here are ten of them, chosen not necessarily as the best ten but as typical of efficient patriots...
There were many other names on Washington's wartime roll of honor. Many of them were career men, to whom war came as the logical great opportunity of public service. Others were business and professional men whom war had yanked up by the roots, transplanted to strange new soil. Each in his own way has worked long and diligently to bring victory closer...
...Ready to roll at a moment's notice, the 45 men and four trucks of the Harvard Auxiliary Fire Department are fully equipped to meet any emergency, should air raid drills be set aside for the grimmer realities of war, and bombs fall on this side of the Atlantic...
...Fifield's drive to pay off the mortgage on the 75th anniversary of the founding of the First Congregational Church is his greatest high-pressure campaign to date. Practically everything was done to church members to make the money roll out of their pockets except stand them on their heads. There were pledges, mite boxes (for children's pennies) which yielded as much as $100 a week. Special publicity promised church members who pledged even the smallest amount that their names and their children's names would be printed on a vast parchment scroll to be permanently...