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Word: rollering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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MINNESOTA: The Twin Cities are to have the first noiseless (roller-bearing) street cars in the world. They are to be installed in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE STATES | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

...Listening In" has many exciting moments. Indeed, as Jonathan Cumberland remarks to Mr. Morrison in the Prologue, "The action begins the moment you move in here." A house abandoned for twenty years lends manifold opportunities for holding the audience breathless, and if the thrills, like those of a roller-coaster, generally bring up short with a laugh, no one is the worse for it. Even the announced intention of the mysterious Mr. Morrison at the outset to prove that all spiritualism is the work of human hands does not impair the goose-fleshy qualities of Bleeker Hall. The fact that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/21/1923 | See Source »

...justifies. The men with A and B minds who are content to slide comfortably through college with a "gentleman's mark", C Taking interest in their activities their athletics and nothing else, are the same men who will be equally content twenty years from now to slouch comfortably at roller-top desks behind six-inch cigars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE | 12/9/1922 | See Source »

...chief attraction, aside from Houdini, are Meehan's Leaping hounds, late of the musical comedy stage. Some excellent animal work is included in the performance. Beeman and Grace presented in "You'll be Surprised", some very clever roller-skating, Donovan and Lee did well in "Doing Well, Thank You", and Davis and Pelle gave a remarkable exhibition of strength. The balance of the program was "filler" of the most ordinary type, and the whole was rather less satisfactory than the patrons of Keith's have come to expect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/22/1921 | See Source »

...first game in the Yale-Princeton series was played on June 4, and the Yale steam-roller flattened out the Tigers in a decisive fashion; the victory going to the Blue by the score of 4-0. Following this contest Yale downed Tufts 6-1, with Robinson's pitching the feature of the Blue play; Syracuse was out-smashed 13-6 in a slugging match; and Brown was nosed out last Wednesday 5-4 by ninth and tenth inning rallies, Aldrich bringing across the winning run in the extra session. Last Saturday, however, the Blue winning streak snapped. The Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON AND ELI NINES HAVE HAD VARIED SEASONS | 6/21/1921 | See Source »

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