Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Improvements for the telegraph and for Dr. Bell's telephone of 1875; the electric pen or telescribe, and the mimeograph; the megaphone; an instantaneous vote-recording machine which Congress rejected because "one of the greatest weapons in the hands of a minority to prevent bad legislation . . . is the roll-call"; the microtasimeter, for detecting slight changes of temperature; the world's first "talking-machine"; carbon filaments for incandescent electric light bulbs; the "Edison effect," an electric valve; the motion-picture camera ; metal filaments for bulbs; the taximeter ; an electric street car and numerous minor contrivances that have brought...
...characters, by herself. Hatcher Hughes, a Columbia professor whose youthful mien belied his pedagogical calling, conquered a certain diffidence and told how he came to fashion the lives of Kentucky mountaineers into Hell-Bent for Heaven, the 1923 Pulitzer Prize Play. The chairman at the next session called the roll of the states and found that one and all were fondly familiar with The Awakening of Helena Ritchie, The Iron Woman and Old Chester Tales, whose author, Mrs. Margaret Deland, then took the platform to declare that fiction is footless unless founded in fact...
...faith of the age is in congresses and mass action. Last week, the National Parent-Teacher Assocition mobilized in Austin, Tex., for its 29th annual congress. Mrs. Drury W. Cooper of Montclair, N. J., national chairman of membership, reported that the Association's roll had reached 875,000. She presented the Louisiana delegation with a banner for increasing its membership 274% in the past year...
Died. Harry T. Roll, 20, junior at Colgate University (Hamilton, N. Y.); at Colgate, struck by a bolt of lightning, as he completed a 100-yd. dash on the athletic field cinder track...
...diagnosed: "For 30 years Lodge was called 'the scholar in politics,' and doubtless got a good deal of quiet pleasure when he read that phrase in the newspapers or heard the toastmaster roll it out at banquets. Then came Wilson out of Princeton University to the Presidency, and people began to call him 'the scholar in politics.' Thus was a rivalry staged...