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Word: roll (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough of this gibberish. Let's call up a couple of other coaches on this week's honor roll. Step up, Dick Harlow! It looks like you have another great November team, but I'll keep my fingers crossed until the last minute of that Yale game has ticked away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 11/19/1940 | See Source »

...ostrich ballet set to Ponchielli's corny Dance of the Hours; Susan, the hippopotamus ballerina whose blimplike cavortings in a pas de deux with Ben Ali Gator literally bring down the house in a wreck of flying plaster; Bacchus and his donkey Jacchus, who trip and roll through the Grant Woodland scape of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Disney's Cinesymphony | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

What makes this year's Big Red roll? Not Matuszcak (pronounced maa-too'-shack), the quick-thinking quarterback whose genius at calling plays is exceeded only by his downfield blocking nor Landsberg, the spinner specialist who can wriggle through a hole and run like a doubling fox, nor McCullough, nor Murphy, nor Bufalino, nor Schmuck, nor any of the other Big Red ball hawks who can not .only throw and catch but almost smell a pass coming their way. Cornell rolls because it is a coordinated machine with a beautifully balanced running and passing attack. "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Red | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

Last fortnight, after Cornell had given Ohio State a 21-to-7 drubbing, Ohio State's Athletic Director L. W. St. John complained that Snavely had signaled his players by wigwagging from the bench with a roll of papers. Few winning coaches have escaped such a charge. Football experts, more amused than annoyed, last week agreed that, wigwag or no wigwag, Cornell is the No. 1 team of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Red | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...thousands of light, near-collision-proof plastic automobiles ever roll on U. S. highways, a notion and a man should get the glory. The notion was Henry Ford's: that man should go back to the land, that the use of agricultural products in industry should be multiplied. The man is stoutish, balding Robert Allen Boyer, a chemist who looks older than his 31 years, has silver hairs among the brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOMOBILES: Plastic Fords | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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