Word: roller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...College Station, Tex., the Texas Aggies, another steam roller, squashed Rice, 25-10-0, for their 19th victory in a row and a probable bid to the Rose Bowl. Mighty Jack Kimbrough, the Aggies' 220-lb. All-America fullback, carried the ball 18 times for a gain of 108 yards. Bill Henderson, a gangling sophomore, stole the show by catching eight successive forward passes for a gain of 117 yards...
When the movies came into U. S. life, band concerts, vaudeville, parlor games faded out. So did roller skating. But in the past few years, roller skating has come rumbling back again...
...Michigan, a vote against godly Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson, 81, Republican, was by implication a vote for sin. Nevertheless, Michiganders sided against the angels, voted in up-&-coming Highway Commissioner Murray D. Van Wagoner, who had quietly built himself a steam roller to ride...
...potential take of $54,000,000. A general storekeeper from Mine Run, Va., he made his first killing in 1935, when in the course of three weeks he won 150 pounds of chicken feed. Encouraged, he went into contesting seriously, soon collected a booty of bicycles, roller skates, shaving brushes, Indian suits, automobiles, cash. Described as a non-profit association, National Contesters charges members $1 a year in dues, keeps them posted about what goes on in the contest world...
...Ithaca, Cornell's Big Red steam roller, last year's Ivy League champion and the East's No. 1 candidate for this year's mythical U. S. championship, continued where it left off last November, squashed a scrappy Colgate team...