Word: rolles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night was dark but rainless; signal lights showed all clear. The exhausts of two locomotives pulling the Pennsylvania Railroad's Golden Triangle blended in a syncopated roll as the Pittsburgh-Chicago flyer raced west across the Ohio farmlands. But up the line at Coulter, a hamlet far beyond the trembling glare of the Triangle's headlight, the stage was being set for tragedy...
...usual, all this set other automen to speculating on how much longer K-F's cash would last. The only figure came recently from the always optimistic Joe Frazer. He said that they had $27,000,000 of their roll left...
Columbia, only team to defeat Yale this season, placed end Bill Swiacki and back Don Kasprzak, while Cornell, which tied the Blue, had tackle Frank Wydo and fullback Wally Kretz on the roll of honor. Others named were halfback Glen Treichler and guard Bob Orlando of Colgate, end Mo Monohan of Dartmouth, and tackle Dan Williams of Princeton...
Mild Weather, Noisy Leaves. But enough city marksmen were getting their deer to keep a steady stream of autos roll back from Maine and Michigan with carcasses slung over the fenders. The day before the Michigan season opened, an eight-mile line of autos waited to get on the ferry at the Straits of Mackinac, to head for such choice spots as Turtle Lake Twenty Acres Domain. The weather had been too mild for ideal hunting ; there was little tracking snow and the leaves were noisy. But there was so much venison on the hoof that a record...
...Roll Call. In Brazil, after ten years of repression, the Communists, with an estimated 150,000 members, were able in last December's election to poll 600,000 of a total 5,000,000 votes. In Argentina, their 120,000-strong party recently sent its overalled trade-union leaders back to the factories to outdo Perón at his own game. In Cuba 151,000 Communists control the mighty trade unions, and liberal President Ramón Grau San Martin, whose election they fought, is reduced to sitting on their lap. In Chile, with 40,000 militants, they...