Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last two stories have more direction for they deal with objective problems which their authors can understand and control. While their issues may seem trivial and dated, it is refreshing to find that ideas as well as "atmospheres" haunt the minds of the Mt. Auburn Street coterie. "Roll Your Own," Cecil Schneer's first contribution to the Advocate, is a somewhat overlong tale of a mortgage foreclosure, but it contains some unusually well conceived characters, ably portrayed by dialogue and incident. Harold Smith's "Boy Wanted" though the slightest of these stories in stature, succeeds the best. Here...
Washington last week had a sample of that extraordinary man, who, like some astonishing Shakespearean character, full of great speeches and thundering images, appears only when the going gets hard. In 1940 he was hailing the merging of American and British interests: "Let it roll. Let it roll on in full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands and better days." By the end of 1941 he watched it rolling. U.S.-British cooperation, that had seemed a dim hope after Dunkirk had become a living reality...
...over the U.S.. last week, 30,000 volunteer Red Cross teachers called a roll of 1,000,000 new pupils who had registered for a 20-hour course. The first lesson was the same everywhere: as an outline of the course, the teacher dictated the nine basic principles of First Aids, starting with F, ending with S. The acrostic...
Come All Ye Faithful (Thurs. 1 p.m. NBC Blue), a roll call of the Allied nations sponsored by the Council for Democracy, presenting Lin Yutang, Charles Boyer, Raymond Massey, others...
...greatest achievement in photography since George Eastman pioneered and introduced the first black and white roll film in 1889-" With this demure panchromatic blush Eastman Kodak Co. last week announced a new, simple film with which any dub shutter-snapper can obtain full color prints instead of black-&-whites from his negatives. The new film (called "Kodacolor") differs from former color films in that it makes a transparent negative from which prints can easily be made on paper.* As a negative, not only are its light-&-shade effects reversed but its colors appear complementary to those of nature...