Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roll her political ideas off the dummy tongues of puppets masquerading as characters, Lillian Hellman has transformed her stage success of a few seasons back into an interesting as well as an intelligent movie. "The Searching Wind" is essentially a point of view rather than a story, but its propaganda is never prosaic...
...Boss's Knee. In the 1932 Republican Convention, when the Hoover crowd was trying to jam through the vice-presidential nomination of Charlie Curtis, "a voice from the floor shouted in answer to the roll call: "Pennsylvania casts 75 votes for General Edward Martin." The vote, as everyone knew, was just a maneuver. Pennsylvania came around to Curtis when the Pennsylvania bosses got what they wanted frolri the National Committee. But it gave Ed Martin his first brief and tentative spin into the national scene...
...forced to cut down drastically; for want of glass bottles, dairies in New York and elsewhere have been forced to cut down on deliveries of milk, which is somewhat short for want of cows. For want of castor oil, used as brake and shock absorber fluid, automakers could not roll out all the cars they had hoped to deliver. For want of nails to make curing racks. Georgia farmers this year were threatened with the loss of half of their $57,000,000 peanut crop...
French priests founded the university 27 years before intercollegiate football began. Then, in 1910, a broken-nosed Norwegian named Knute Rockne came along, and Notre Dame really started to roll...
...billing machine which takes a roll of blank paper, perforates it, cuts it to size, prints forms in two colors, prints the amounts of the bills, addresses them, and stacks them in neat piles, has every bill up to date at month's end, including sales , on the last...