Word: rollingly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...sport of kings as practiced by Hollywood's cinemoguls at worst resembles mounted croquet, at best an Indian raid from a western thriller or the flight of a Tartar tribe. Now & then man and beast roll in the dust, riders run wild-eyed after their mounts...
...trend looked even more significant when these factors were added: the entire strength of the Kelly-Nash-Horner machine, upstate & down, was geared to roll up an overwhelming total for the President. The goal was 16-to-1, with Mr. Garner on the short end. Ten-to-one was taken for granted; mousy pollsters who timidly forecast 8-to-1 were fleered...
...Army. Says the R. C. : "I am doing my best. . . . Do you see that lanky nigger? He tried to get away. He is just about to be hanged." The captain: "It is interesting to watch the effect on the eyes, don't you think? See how they roll. The foam at the mouth is rather amusing, too." The scene changes and a "Lord Fisher" says to Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald: "We are very pleased with the way things are going. Vickers' shares are up 20%." MacDonald: "Incidentally, 20% of the niggers died on the way across. What...
...conductor wishes to deafen his hearers with a supercolossal roll of the drums or double them up in agony with a high note from the violins, Bell Telephone Laboratories now offers him an opportunity by new "stereophonic" recordings, on motion-picture film, of "enhanced"' music. In stereophonic recording, sound is picked up by three microphones widely separated on the sound stage, to produce an illusion of tonal depth and space comparable to that of an actual performance. It may then be "enhanced" by a conductor, taking the stereophonic recording and fiddling with various mixers to bring out clearer tonal...
...star-observers are organized, proudly calling a roll of 142 members from all quarters of the globe. These cooperate with the Harvard Observatory and other great astronomical institutions of the world. The observers are not all old, some of them being in high school. There are all professions, including plumbers, in the roster of the society...