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Word: rolles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-collar areas of Boston, Frederic C. Dumaine flaunted an open-shirt background, cussed a blue streak, and walked with a bearlike roll. But by many a shrewd and ruthless financial coup, he climbed to the top of Boston's moneyed oligarchy, bossed the Amoskeag textile mills, once the world's biggest. Last week, at 82, shaggy-browed, alert Frederic Dumaine was in the midst of the biggest coup of his career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raid on the New Haven | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Fielder's Choice. In Pacific Beach, Calif., Stan Picard lost a wheel off his trailer, watched it roll into the hands of a stranger who quickly loaded it into his car and drove away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...also finds steaks, Nylons, chocolates, cigars, soap, butter, evening gowns, whipped cream. He finds everything, including champagne (to stimulate the evening) and aspirin (to soothe the morning after). The neon signs advertising these wares match Times Square's own fireworks. Shiny Buicks and Studebakers roll along tree-lined boulevards amid scents of spring and U.S. gasoline. The scene is no mirage. It is Brussels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Big Man | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...graduates in June, but says he has no favorite among the Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians. Says his coach: "He's still one of the boys. They kid around with him just the same and tussle with him. When he needs rolling, we roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nature Boy | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...played with the idea as he flipped his notebook from hand to hand. A committee to solve all conflicts! In his hazy mind's eye, he imagined a crowd watching the news roll around the Times Tower and yelling II, IV, VI, VIII, who do we appreciate? So simple too--give each problem a number and get everlasting peace. Vag hurried to reach University Hall before his white hope had faded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/4/1948 | See Source »

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