Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coughlin of the Record: "Dartmouth, 20-7; Hutchinson will help roll up the score. A wet field will favor Dartmouth's power...
...strength of 300,000 last week. Its Commander in Chief, Lieut. General Hugo Viktor Osterman, personally took the field on the Soviet frontier of Finland, a frontier of such numberless lakes, forests and marshes that if Russia should choose to strike with mechanized forces these would have to roll directly up from Leningrad into the narrow, flat Finnish terrain between the Gulf and Lake Laatokka, Europe's largest lake. On this strategic gateway Finland has massed her only heavy fortifications, concrete pillbox forts and tank traps which Finnish soldiers last week worked furiously to strengthen...
...tight, emotions running skin-deep, the U. S. watched its 76th Congress open a Great Debate last week. A thousand curious citizens pulled wires to wangle passes to cram into the Senate's gallery of 450 seats. Eighty-three Senators out of 96-a portentous proportion-answered the roll call...
...speechmaking is no grave statement of solemn issues, but a chance to play his own tune on the great harp of an audience. And a harp is what his audience becomes. So infectious is his gifted gab that the soberest observers have found themselves swaying to the roll of it, while the Chandler fans yell "Tell it, Happy boy! Oh, tell...
...profit from the scarcity of pig (price $22.50) have been the railroads and other sellers of its rival raw material, scrap, who have put the price up to $26 a ton (Aug. 31 price: $15.25). At $26, sheet mills are buying bundles of scrapped sheets which they must re-roll to strict specifications to sell for only $7 to $8 more. Rail mills are buying scrap to go into rail selling for only $14 more. Small steel companies, buying nearly all their scrap have already passed $5 of this scrap advance on to their customers, are unable to get enough...