Word: rock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water rose, forcing the trapped men away from their food line, Dr. Robertson guessed that they could hold out another ten or twelve hours. Soon he could hear the picks of the miners hacking frantically overhead, passing rock and dirt up to the surface by a human chain. Hospital kits were unpacked, stretcher-bearers stood ready as the tired rescuers, themselves threatened momentarily with collapse of their shaft, sent up word that they were "almost through...
...Cities and towns in the Philadelphia's itinerary: Hartford, Boston, Springfield, Toronto, Chicago, Urbana, Ill., Evansville, Ind., Atlanta, New Orleans, Birmingham, Little Rock, Dallas, El Paso, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Denver, Holdrege, Neb., Omaha, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Ann Arbor, Manhattan...
...Subsequently this was enacted into law. . . . Since beer has been made legal, conditions have improved. . . . The illegal manufacture of 'bush beer' has been completely done away with. . . . Samoans do not carry alcohol as well as ordinary white persons. . . . The Samoans, particularly the young men, were addicted to rock throwing. . . . This habit culminated in one death. . . . The assailant was sentenced to three years in jail. . . . There has been very little trouble with rock throwing since that time...
...grossing $1,000,000. This season more ground was covered, with earnings even greater. The Ballet danced with the leading symphony orchestras in Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit. It played to capacity audiences in cities which had never seen a ballet. There were sold-out houses in Little Rock, Ark., El Paso, Tex., Portland, Me. In Brockton, Mass., a leading citizen was impressed because the ballet's appearance there was on of the rare occasions when he had known his townsfolk to turn out in formal evening clothes...
...cannot but feel, however, that the "Association of Gold Star Mothers" got the dirty end of that Princeton stick. They get shipped to Europe "to view the green fields where their sons shall some day lie" while we stay home and enjoy our boni at Savin Rock. Inasmuch as Mr. Brisbane assures us that the next war will be a Japanese invasion, we see no reason why the Vassar heroines cannot get "teary around the eyes" looking at the green fields adjacent to New Haven...