Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officers who were disabled 30% or more, to the scale paid regular retired officers, entailing $2,294,000 per annum (average, $56.40 per month per officer); Representatives Johnson (South Dakota), McClintic (Oklahoma) Luce (Massachusetts), Rankin (Mississippi), Vincent (Michigan), Huddleston (Alabama) opposed this bill but it was passed without a roll call. ¶ Passed a bill authorizing $1,770,000 in the next five years to breed game-fish. ¶ Voted 169 to 159 for an adjournment blocking a vote on the Senate's measure to have the Muscle Shoals power and fertilizer project operated...
...first ballot was so widely scattered that no demonstrations took place, but votes that shifted to Smith and Baker on the second roll call brought forth cheering, and parades of delegates, carrying their standards. On the second ballot the Pennsylvania vote for W. B. Wilson of that state was contested, and the delegation was polled by the permanent chairman, and found to be for Smith by a two-vote margain. All the states voted under the unit rule...
...left out of any dope sheet no matter what the meet may be. Other good men seem to be Engle, a Yale sophomore, and the trio who raced each other last Saturday in the Dartmouth, Colgate, Syracuse meet. I mean Barbuti, of Syracuse. Swope of Dartmouth, and Roll of Colgate. All were in the finals of last year's Intercollegiates and all are fast...
...effects of an abdominal operation brought Death to Earl Cave last week after he had enjoyed his new title for less than a day. Of him the London Times, said with a justice finer than eulogy, "Although he cannot be reckoned among the greatest in the long, brilliant roll of Lord High Chancellors of England, he must rank as a sound lawyer. . . . None excelled him in ... sanity of judgment...
...lions roar. Huge macaws wing across the sky, crying hoarsely and flashing crimson. We ford and re-ford the north-flowing tributary, for endless hours we toil across the Yali range, and finally drop down near Jinotega in another night of driving rain over a road where the horses roll pitifully, up to their bellies in mud. ... I was finally brought to ... General Sandino's headquarters ... at San Rafael del Norte ... in the Department of Jinotega on the high flank of the Yali Range...