Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent attack on rest by Dr. William Dock, Long Island College of Medicine pathologist (TIME, April 24), started a hot debate among doctors. Last fortnight a full-dress symposium on "the abuse of rest," by a group of eminent specialists, was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The specialists were almost unanimous in feeling that Dr. Dock was right...
...From a dock at Mobile last week a score of bellowing Guernsey, Jersey and Hoistein heifers were swung aboard a ship, Puerto Rico-bound. They were the first tangible results of the most down-to-earth postwar plan devised by a U.S. church. The church was the Brethren (Dunkers*), most of whose 185,000 members are farmers. The project: raising heifers to send to postwar Europe to replace depleted stock, help feed hungry Europeans...
...great-grandfather before him, he is a member of the House of Commons. He once talked Tory Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett into giving his home town (Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec) a new railroad station. Another time he talked his party (Liberal) into building a dock on an unnavigable stream. In four sessions he addressed Parliament 471 times...
...fire grew. At 4 p.m. the smoke suddenly changed from brown to milky white and a shaft of orange flame shot high into the air. The ship's bridge melted, her crazed masts toppled overside. The fire brigade chief ordered "abandon ship," swiftly followed his men onto the dock. At 4:07 the first explosion came...
...ship moored near by jumped onto a wharf. Another tossed her anchor into her neighbor's rigging. Everything on the dock, including seven fire engines, disappeared. A mile away a householder saw every window in his home shatter at once, found a 28-lb. gold -bar (worth $27,700) on his veranda. An officer staggered, blackened and bleeding, into the Taj Mahal Hotel muttering, "the air-full of arms and legs and heads -horrible-horrible...