Word: rolles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...copy for our proofreaders and make-up men; 2) reproduces itself at the other end of wires in the Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Chicago printing plants. There the tape is fed into especially equipped Linotype machines, whose typesetting keys it controls in much the same way that a pianola roll controls the keys of a mechanical piano. The result is galleys of correctly-justified lines of metal type ready to be made up into pages according to make-up instructions from New York...
...head of No. 18. The line-squall was moving closer to the field. Baldwin could look into its black heart as he turned his four-engined craft into the wind. The tower gave the go-ahead. Baldwin shoved his throttles open. The big ship began to roll, accelerated, began eating up footage on the blurring runway. It flashed 500, 1,000, 1,500 feet, it got up to a speed of 100 m.p.h. Still it did not get off the ground. Warned of danger by every instinct, Baldwin kept trying to lift his 30 tons of hurtling, streamlined metal. Nothing...
Arthur J. Boncot '49 of Leverett House and Germantown, Pa., and Peter B. Roll '48 of Lowell House and Scarborough, N. Y., will join 72-year old McMillan and his crew of 14 in the northern track to chart the seaward move of four massive glaciers which end in Baffin...
Lowell: Stroke, Prescott; 7, Roll; 6, Erskine; 5, Morse; 4, Winslow; 3, Potter; 2, Hellor; bow, Watson; cox, Allen. Kirkland: Stroke, Shoemaker; 7, Murphy; 6, Cadoret; 5, Bingham; 4, Callahan; 3, Palmer; 2, Brooks; bow, W. Lowe; cox, Harris. Leverett: Stroke, Hopewell; 7, McKearney; 6, Friedman; 5, Mayer; 4, Baker; 3, Clark; 2, Lacy; bow, Haynes; cox, Elliot...
Last week, on its 75th Birthday, Popular Science was hardly as intellectual as in Youmans' day, but it was much (circ. 1,000,000) more popular. Its 288-page anniversary issue proudly called the roll of such contributors as Henry George, Charles Darwin, William James, Havelock Ellis, John Dewey, Thomas A. Edison, Charles Kettering. By shrewdly aiming at the home mechanic who yearns for a speaking acquaintance with atomic physics, and the scientist who yearns for a handcraft hobby, PSM had become the giant in its oddly assorted field...