Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flood recedes more than half a million Americans, men, women and children, will have seen their homes swallowed up in the deluge, their crops destroyed, their businesses ruined? . . . The flood is still roaring on its devastating way in Louisiana and thousands are daily being added to the long roll of those who are under the care and protection of the Red Cross...
...many compound parts. The reason for this move, and the objection to Mr. Wister's proposal lies in the significance of the Board and the part it plays in all phases of Harvard life. As the dominating group influence in the government of the University its roll should include men geographically representative; this can be done, and the recent tendency toward that end should suffer no intervention. There is in this theory and in the notations of Mr. Batchelder's letter no need of sacrificing either the merit or the competency of the Board...
...Oliver Lodge. Respectful, they used no crowbar or ax. Resourceful, they peeked last week into the box with the aid of an Xray. Amused, they saw only the outlines of a horse pistol, dice box, skull, scissors, bead bag, pins, coins, rings, and what is believed to be the roll of a manuscript...
Such was the prayer offered last week by Mrs. Chaplain General Matthew Brewster of New Orleans, for deceased national officers, state regents and the 2,067 death roll of the Daughters of the American Revolution, who last week held their 36th "Continental .Congress," at Washington...
...when the National Labor-Party was founded, James Ramsay Macdonald has repeatedly been elected its treasurer. But, last week, at a party conference in Leicester, opponents of Mr. Macdonald, defiant as mice when the cat is away, stampeded through a vote 312 to 118 striking his name from the roll of nominees for treasurer. The stroke was significant, revealed sharply that divergence between Labor radicals and Labor conservatives which Mr. Macdonald has many times prevented from becoming a party split by the force of his political generalship...