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Word: rocke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominees Smith and Robinson exchanged congratulations. Each recalled campaigning together for Cox in 1920. Nominee Robinson proceeded to his home in Little Rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tail-of-the-Ticket | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...This preacher prayed for Plymouth Rock. Lord, it's Boulder Darn we are after, now! There is no appropriation goes with Plymouth Rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Impious Buffoon | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...grind through the rock with drills. All day the air is filled with minute particles of stone, deadly dangerous dust is sucked into human lungs with every breath. The dust varies according to the stone, but wherever there is quartz, flint, ganister, sandstone, granite, there silica particles lead all the rest. These tiny glasslike fragments do not dissolve in the moisture of the nasal passages. Sharp-edged, insoluble, they penetrate the lungs, enter the cells. The crowded cells clump together. In an effort to protect the body, fibres begin to grow around the "clumps." Gradually the lungs choke up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Silicosis | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...means a harsh, impersonal "business dictator," Dr. Deutsch surrounded himself with numerous trusted associates, of whom Dr. Hermann Beucher seems most likely to succeed him. So rock founded is the prosperous solidarity of the A. E. G. that its securities did not so much as flutter upon the German bourse, last week, when kindly Dr. Deutsch was smitten down by heart failure. Since great secrecy always surrounds the details of large German fortunes, no estimate of the estate left by Dr. Deutsch can be made; but his annual salary income as a director of more than 40 corporations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death of Deutsch | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...their own breakfast table, next to the cream pitcher. "Surely," cried one citizen, "Coolidge will act promptly. This situation cannot go on. Great Scot, this is the beginning of a PANIC. We'll all be bankrupt. Why, I always thought the house of Morgan was founded on rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Morgan's Old Gold | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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