Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many people thought Author Tarkington was exaggeratedly ironic when he made Mr. Tinker cry, "What an ad!" upon seeing the Rock of Gibraltar; when he made Mr. Tinker cry out upon the sewers of Algiers and say: "Why, the United States Army ought to come over here and clean it up!" Mr. Tinker boasted how much finer his home town was than oldtime Timgad. Mr. Tinker rode through Africa on a camel, like a barbaric Roman potentate, "raining money like some great careless thundercloud charged with silver and gold and pouring them down...
After a visit to Chicago, boyish Senator Nye, of the investigating committee, announced that he and Senator Norbeck had unearthed fresh oil evidence, which, if valid, would "rock the country." Senator Nye said: "If reports given to our committee are true, a name is involved that it would be criminal to mention until further investigation of the basis of the charges is made...
...most plausible cause of the disaster was the dam itself. "It is admitted," said Coroner Frank A. Nance of Los Angeles, "that the dam was not anchored to hard rock. One end was fastened to shale and the other to a conglomerate formation." Water had gradually seeped into this bed, softened it; and last week when the dam was filled to its maximum capacity, the foundations crumbled. Residents reported that they had noticed small leaks about the base of the dam ten days before the break...
John D. Rockefeller III (student) was elected vice-president of the Philadelphian Society at Princeton University The society's purpose is to promote religion among the undergraduates. William S. Mitchell of Little Rock, Ark., was elected president...
...suitors blockade at one end, while others sneak in opposite: "Kill the man, but save the wench! . . ."A relic of civilized scruple holds Martin from killing a hairy giant furnaceman, because he has sprawled over the tracks and technically is down. But Claire sees the prostrate giant heave a rock, and, with no scruples, jabs him, hacks, thwacks, kills, saving Martin's life...