Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...having been passed a week before by the House, came up one evening in the Senate. Only twelve minutes were spent in passing it but, while it was 01 the floor, an amendment sponsored by Senator Ball, lame duck Republican from Delaware, was quietly attached without discussion or a roll call...
Again the roll-call of America's colleges is marshalled to summary in a supplement published with this issue. Again the story told is one of swift and stirring advance. Eighty-three of the Nation's 600 colleges and universities now have 245, 248 students enrolled for full-time work. This is an increase of 15.299 since the academic year of 1923-24. The rate of growth--nearly 6 1-2 per cent--is faster, proportionately, than the growth of the whole population of the United States. Think what that means! Fifteen thousand students are enough in themselves to make...
...Democrats now, like Sisyphus in the classic fable, must roll our great, heavy stone uphill again, and we never will roll it uphill again unless there shall be a reversion on the part of the party to its former sound ideas of the proper relations between the states and the National Government and between governmental activity and private industrial activity...
...thick glass port, flooded a cabin and swept a man reclining in security out of his berth, wrenching his shoulder out of place. The gale increased. At times it blew 100 miles an hour. More ports were driven in? eleven ports in all. On three successive days, green water rolled over the boat deck, 90 ft. above the keel. Two stewards were thrown down a companionway and broke their arms. The expansive panes of the windows protecting the promenades and staterooms were shattered. The roll of injuries rose to 32. In one day, the Leviathan progressed a bare 200 miles...
...poetry of bell effects has always appealed to composers for the piano. In Borodin's Au Couvent, a bell tolls for 18 measures, silvery, gentle, relentless; Debussy composed an intricately sophisticated pattern for bells in his Japanese Temple Gongs; stern bells crash and roll in Tschaikowsky's 1812 Overture; sleigh bells jingle like hard, gay laughter in his Troika (Op. 37, No. 11); bells happily pious tinkle in the Celeste of Korngold's Die Tote Stadt; the profound and icy-hearted Kremlin bell booms in Rachmaninoff's Prelude (Op. 3, No. 2). Many are the other...