Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard University sponsors were surprised some years ago when they arranged an exhibition of Sandy Calder's work, sent a truck to carry the statues to the exhibition hall and found no one at the station but Sculptor Calder with a pair of pliers in his pocket, a roll of wire over his shoulder...
...hope for tremendous volume. Cans sell for about 2? each. At best it is a hard business to break into because the established can makers and their customers are usually tied together with long-term contracts, often with physical connections. Cans for Campbell soup in Camden, N. J. roll out of an adjoining Continental plant. And a neophyte can maker like Crown can hardly expect to sell its goods on the basis of "service" alone...
That nation of rhetoricians, the Irish, love to kiss the truth with generous euphemistic smacks, sometimes like to roll the tart bitterness of an understatement on their curly tongues. Such a concentrated less-than-truth is "The Trouble," their phrase for the five years of battle, murder & sudden death (1916-1921). Such Irishmen as Ernie O Malley, who not only saw the Trouble at first hand but did their best to help it along, referred to it simply as "the scrap." But as Author O Malley well knows, and as his Army Without Banners well shows, those troublous scraps were...
...roll of Boylston prize winners contains the names of numerous famous graduates. George Santayana '86 performed the unparalleled feat of winning awards for the recitation of both Latin and Greek passages, giving a selection from Virgil's "Aeneid" in his Junior year and one from Homer's "IIiad" as a Senior H. V. Kaltenborn '09 took first place in his Senior year. George R. Agassiz '84 and Arthur C. Train '96 are also among the eminent prize winners...
...swimmers will roll on towards Yale by sinking the mediocre Quakers, and from New Haven comes the word that the Elis are ready to offer good odds that their team will continue its long, long victory streak when it faces the Crimson in a meet that is assuming the proportions of the Yale Bowl jinx . . . . the confident, Varsity grapplers face a mediocre Yale team on the Medford mat and Harvey Ross faces the best wrestler in New England at his weight in the Jumbo 118 pound matman . . . . the Polo team will also be at New Haven against the Elis...