Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate: Reaffirmed the principle of Japanese exclusion by 71 to 4 on a roll call supplementary to the viva voce vote that denounced the "Gentlemen's Agreement" with Japan...
...James H. Breasted, in the spot-light for his thankless task of peace-making in the TutankhAmen controversy, has published through the New York Historical Society a bulletin on an Egyptian papyrus of 1600 B. C., owned by the Society, the oldest scientific book in America. The roll is over 15 feet long, 13 inches high, and written on both sides. It deals with the medical and surgical practice of the Egyptians. The author was not a quack or magician, but a serious medical scholar. The deciphering of the papyrus by Dr. Breasted was made doubly difficult by technical terminology...
...York stockholders hold about $100,000 par value of the stocks and bonds of Mr. Ford's private railroad; Henry himself holds 95% of the road's bonds and stocks. His diversion of automobile traffic to the D. T. & I. enabled that carrier to roll up net income of $1,786,924 last year, and proportionately heavier profits so far this year...
...excitement, Mr. Quin pounded the table. His gum broke loose from its moorings and began to roll from side to side, flirting with the edge of destruction. At last, Representative James H. MacLafferty of California rose and interposed: "Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman will yield, I wish to state to him that he is in imminent danger of losing his chewing...
...seventh of the Kajar dynasty, youthful and rotund, learned last week in Paris that the Persian Parliament had deposed him, that he no longer had the right to be termed Sultan. Depatches stated that the 26-year-old exile "has wept continuously since receiving the awful news; great tears roll down his royal cheeks; he has shut himself in his private suite in his house near the Bois de Boulogne; he walks around in circles, lamenting his fate in Oriental fashion." The Baroness d'Erlanger, former Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt, whom he had once asked to be his Sultana...