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Word: roll (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall, 23-year-old William L. Cox is a cocky, capable truckman and he drives a big rig-a tractor and a double-tank trailer. Some of his admiring fellow truckers would say that sharp-eyed Billy could roll his rig through an oven door without jarring the roast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Take It Easy | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...voting against the Veteran, even if they know that the Rankin plan would make the federal budget a grotesque joke. On Tuesday, for example, the House voted twice to chop the enacting clause out of the pension bill--which would have squelched it--but when Rankin demanded a roll call vote, the opposition vanished as if by magic. The enacting clause was left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rankin's Folly | 3/25/1949 | See Source »

Though Huntington and tied up the game in the second period, the Harvard offense did not begin to roll until the final frame. At 6:12 Huntington took a long shot. Moseley grabbed a rebound and shot, then snared the second rebound and scored...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Six Tops Yale, 8-3, Will Tackle Indians Tonight | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...tough penalty slapped on Gerry Genn dropped the Crimson to third place in the slalom, but the mishap was smoothed over since Yale wound up in fourth place. The powerful MIT team which had begun to roll by this time, took an easy first, and Williams popped up with second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Tops Elis, Bows to MIT in Skiing | 3/1/1949 | See Source »

Arising with Drums. In the early 1900s, on every Easter morning, an orchestra hired for the occasion would roll into a kettledrum crescendo which just about lifted the roof off the Middletown (Conn.) Holy Trinity Church. It was Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass. The choir chanted: "I believe in one God . . ." Anda skinny little substitute crucifer, home from boarding school, would tell himself tremblingly: "Boy, I sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: The Man from Middletown | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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