Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cadaverous James M. ("Chink") Landis, on leave of absence as Dean of Harvard's Law School, ex-Chairman of SEC, ex-member of the Federal Trade Commission, now finally became ex-OCDirector (TIME, Aug. 16). Translated into Iraqi, his new title should roll impressively off the tongue: "American Director of Economic Operations in the Middle East and principal American Civilian Representative at the Middle East Supply Center, with the personal rank of Minister." His job: to strengthen the U.S. management of the Middle East Supply Center, a joint U.S.-British project which routes civilian supplies to some 80 million...
...many weeks now a group of seniors has been hard at work on an activity, the outcome of which we all await with interest. We are referring to the year book. "The Rough Roll." At the present time it may not seem too important, because we are now in daily contact with all the people and scenes which it will recall to mind in the years to come. In that future period, though we may think otherwise at the moment, we will be interested in the men who are now undergoing the same ordeal that we are. In those...
...managed to get through grammar school, took a few music lessons and embarked on a childhood career as a café piano pounder and vaudeville actor. At 17 he got a job with Music Publisher Gus Edwards and wrote the first Ruby hit, When Those Sweet Hawaiian Babies Roll Their Eyes...
...promenade deck. Since the ship lay on her side, stagings had to be built for the divers and the workmen above water. Bulkheads of timber and concrete were set in place to divide the ship into compartments, permitting the use of controlled pumping. The plan was to roll the vessel upright, resting on the port bilge keel. By pumping and flooding, movement could be controlled and slowed to prevent a sudden lurch when the ship broke free...
...city block long. It is shown on the run-out table of the Defense Plant Corporation's new sheet mill, operated by Alcoa at McCook, Ill. The sheet is on its way to make airplane skins. The new plant, one of the world's largest, can roll aluminum more than 50 times faster than prewar equipment...