Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long, slim, graceful, swift, the Mauretania-like her sister ship Lnsitania-was famed for the way she sliced through waves at 25 knots, maintained such a consistent speed that her transatlantic time rarely varied by more than five minutes. A "bad roller" in heavy seas, she was unpopular with many a weak-stomached traveler. Yet in her day she probably carried more bigwigs than any other two ships together...
Several other colleges have met the situation by introducing "big-time" football and placing it on a professional basis. As a result, gate receipts and educational endowments have gone hand in hand. The H.A.A. quite evidently intends to quit the roller coaster. John Harvard's athletes cannot let their legs get caught in the stocks of athletic receipts...
...Williams been merely a 'gentleman's college,' for lack of any more vital purpose. None of these outworn epitaphs of an intellectual graveyard does the "Record" intend to extol simply for their own sakes. It is high time that to the weedy, run-down sod we apply not a roller, but a plowshare, in the hope of encouraging some new and greener vegetation...
...Chicago, Grocer John Baguilais forbade neighborhood urchins to enter his store on roller skates. His wife thwacked them with a broom. Minus roller skates, two boys returned to the store with a covered basket, set it down well inside the door, removed the cover, fled. Out of the basket flew approximately 100 dirty English sparrows. Sparrows filled the store, spotted cracker barrel, cookie counter, sugar and prune bins and pecked holes in the breakfast food boxes. For two days Grocer Baguilais, his wife and police swung brooms in the air and booed, knocked out two sparrows...
...scattered so widely over the school grounds that to visit them all would mean a 40-mi. automobile drive. The school and other Hershey companies own nearly everything in the town, including the golf course, the trolley line, the water and electric companies, the department store, the laundry, the roller coaster. With an annual income from its trust fund of $1,675,000, Hershey Industrial School is continually under pressure to expand, has lately piled up embarrassingly large surpluses...