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Word: roll (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Subsequently, please take the issue of TIME which you would send me, roll it into a slender roll, locate your managing editor, and shove it down his throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 13, 1941 | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...Piano (Victor album). Four of the best-"Duke" Ellington, "Fats" Waller, Earl Hines, "Jelly Roll" Morton-display their celebrated styles, mostly in new versions of staples like Solitude and Dear Old Southland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: October Records | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...football games roll up the curtain on the current House gridiron season when Kirkland faces Leverett and Lowell clashes with Winthrop on Soldiers Field this afternoon...

Author: By Dan H. Fenn, | Title: Deacons Meet Bunnies and Lowell Tackles Winthrop | 10/8/1941 | See Source »

Pictures on paper film are standard size, taken on a long roll, instead of separate celluloid plates. Over 125 X-rays can be made in an hour for a little less than a dollar apiece. In Manhattan, paper films have been used to X-ray 50,000 draftees and National Guardsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: X-Ray Experts | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

When Test Pilot Eddie Allen brought B-17E down after 20 minutes in the air, Boeing made a proud announcement: while B-17D production goes ahead "Es" are on the line, too, will shortly begin to roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: New Fortress | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

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