Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discover it, Dr. Francis Xavier Dercum, President of the American Philosophical Society, last week set bravely forth. Assisting him are 41 men, each and every one high on the honor roll of U. S. savants...
...found it was not a human being but a mechanical man, a perfected robot. The head came off in his hands. Examining it closely, he found it contained a replaceable cylinder on which was written "English 99 1-2". There was a complicated mechanism by which impressions on the roll were transferred to the fingers and which enabled the creature to write on paper exactly what was on the cylinder...
...roll to top-notch college athletes who have brought their reputations to professional sport, particularly to boxing and baseball, is large, and the list of failures among these "college guys" almost as extensive. Almost universally, these failures have been hastened by unpopularity, and generally the attitude of the customers which, after all, makes or break a professional sportsman, has been ascribed to prejudice against the college man as such...
...fourth gift dating from the eighteenth century is a manuscript roll from Tun Huang, a province of Kansu, China, which bears a Chinese Buddhist text on the obverse and rough draughts of state documents in ancient Tibetan and in the Iranian language of Khotan on the reverse side...
...think it's a weakness of category. You see, some Careful Greeters don't distinguish between the Cut and the Stare. I do. It may be splitting hairs, but I think there is a place for the Cut, the simple Stare, the Stare with modified eye-roll, and the Stare with lip movement. So that while I have sought variety, others have been content to remain in the simpler paradigms of greeting, and still use the common, or old-fashioned Stare on all occasions...