Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presenting the best that Boston has to offer in the line of amusements and recreation, the Outing Club has scheduled for Saturday an all-day trip to Nantasket bathing beach and amusement center. Excellent swimming, thrills on the roller-coaster, and an enjoyable ocean trip on the Nantasket boat await those who sign up at the Summer School Office, Wadsworth 2, before Friday noon...
...talk of "steam-roller tactics"; well, we're up against steam-roller tactics, and if the axiom of fight fire with fire still holds good, then we'd better praise them instead of condemning them. The answer to the whole question is sacrifice; no, not sacrifice with tears of sorrow rolling down one's cheeks, but sacrifice with a touch of pride and a thankfulness for the opportunity...
...change is the addition of steam-roller tactics to what was an advisory system. Planning to fill all deferred-status quotas at the earliest possible moment, Yale's advisors may assume the guise of recruiting officers. This will work little hardship on the men now in college who know the difference between V-1 and the Army enlisted reserve and who have checked on their qualifications for each, but the maze of available delayed-action enlistment plans can only add to the bewilderment of the new Freshman. High pressured into enlisting with the rest of his class within...
Said WPB: no more asparagus tongs, beer mugs, bird cages, butter knives, cash registers, cigaret lighters, cocktail shakers, compacts, corn poppers; no more flagpoles, hair curlers, knitting needles, lobster forks, pie plates; no more roller skates, spittoons, toolboxes, wastebaskets or weatherstripping; no more nothing. Only concession to buying-as-usual: if gold or silver could do in place of other metals, WPB said go ahead...
...blow would come was anybody's guess. But one man made a guess last week that was noteworthy. In Russia and Japan (Doubleday, Doran; $2), Author Maurice Hindus, one of the few people outside the Soviet Union who gave the Russians a chance against the Nazi steam roller, wrote: "A war between Russia and Japan is ... inevitable. . . . Only the sudden collapse of Japan would avert such a war. . . . Japan must strike at Russia . . . while the other end of the Axis fights Russia in Europe, or else forfeit all hope of ever becoming the dominant power on the mainland...