Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must make a small purchase (twenty-nine cents, in itself representing a twenty cent saving on a common need). There are, however, two offers which do not "involve a small purchase" at all: one is good for a suit pressing job and another for the development of any roll of films. The required purchases are all of items normally bought by many Harvard students...
...Appleton Chapel, caused chapel services to be dropped for several months. "The Faculty . . . tried, quite involuntarily, and interesting experiment in college discipline. It has been a common opinion that morning prayers were not only right and helpful in themselves, but also necessary to college discipline, partly as a morning roll-call and partly as a means of enforcing continuous residence . . . the omission of morning prayers for nearly five months, at the time of year when the days are shortest and coldest, had no ill effects whatever on college order or discipline...
Unlike the Bathyscaphe explorer who faces a more insidious danger. For on getting together, the Atlantic and Atlantis, can deliver a stomach torturing roll designed to reduce even the hardiest scientist to a pale, seasick green. In the cramped quarters of the best, the dining table is set on a pivot to allow for a roll that often nears fifty degrees...
...straggled Nevada's Republican Senator George Malone to register a ringing aye. Then came Joe McCarthy (who is usually late for roll calls) and Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers. Both were for the amendment. The count: 60 to 28−still more than enough for passage. But two other latecomers, Pennsylvania's Republican Senator James Duff and Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney, arrived just in time to vote against the measure. That made it 60-30−precisely two-thirds. Vice President Richard Nixon, presiding, took a long slow look around the chamber...
...Came the roll call, close and tense, with the possibility that Knowland's vote might make the difference. When the clerk finished reading the names, the tally was 57 ayes, 28 noes−the necessary two-thirds...