Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...specially invited guests at the performances of a 19-month old boy known as Johnny. They watched the youngster critically as he climbed up a steep plank to get a banana, as he dropped down from a 5-ft. perch (see cut, p. 18), as he got around on roller skates, as he picked out familiar objects from a pile of hells, pencils, spoons and other miscellany-all the while gibbling &; gabbling with his august audience. Johnny has appeared in motion pictures displayed to psychologists in Chicago last autumn (TIME, Sept. 18). Last week's was his first personal...
...year after he left college, he got a job with Hyatt Roller Bearing Division (General Motors). Two years later he was made assistant to General Motors' vice president John L. Pratt. In 1930 he was made assistant to President Sloan and placed in charge of industrial relations. Two years ago he became a vice president, and, still spreading his activities, took charge of the Share-the-Work movement in the 2nd Federal Reserve District under Standard Oil's Teagle. Last June he was summoned to Washington to act as go-between between the tycoons of the Industrial Advisory...
...Manhattan, Bert Nevins, 24, was charged with cruelty to animals when a turkey was found in his hotel room strapped to roller skates...
When the ball finally appeared, the Cantabrigians gallantly took the field ready to do or die. For an hour the young ladies took it on the chin and shin before the steam roller tactics of the Harvard forwards. The Dunsterian's ability to run faster finally brought victory, although there was some question as to the legality of the tallies made since the rules were hard to enforce. It was thought that four goals had been scored by the Dunster team while Winsor was known to have scored only...
Author Rouverol (Skidding) has given the youngsters a funny, often callous play about two-dimensional adolescence, in the guaranteed tradition of Booth Tarkington. Present are the malapropisms ("hyperficial"), the big words for little feelings, the emotional roller-coasting from top to bottom to top again in a minute flat, adult poses and childish behavior...