Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minnesota, where the Mississippi spreads itself to be Lake Pepin, a giant rock looms high, the grim reminder of the fate of the Princess Winona. Strangers passing by are inevitable told of the Indian girl and her love for Chatonska, bravest of her uncle's warriors, how with him away at battle she was wedded against her will to the hawk-nosed Matosapa, chief of a neighboring tribe, how, singing, she jumped to her death "and the place ever since has been known as Maiden Rock...
Recent news of the expedition to Northern China undertaken by Dr. J. F. Rock, of the Arnold Arboretum, under the auspices of the National Geographic Society, has been received by Professor Oakes Ames '98, Chairman of the Division of Biology, in a colorful letter from Professor Rock...
Professor Rock writes from Yunnanfu that after going through a "terrific typhoon for two and a half days with a wind velocity of 130 miles per hour and the barometer at 27.90, during which my bed was torn out of the floor and turned over while I was in it," he finally reached Japan...
Professor Rock says in his letter that at the time of writing his baggage and property of the Arnold Arboretum were in the hands of an gent of the Standard Oil Company, and that as soon as the road was open he would be able to ship the latter to Yunnanfu and from there forward it to Boston...
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