Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...load of happy, willing politicians shook hands and slapped one another's backs, one day last week in the lobby of the Bigelow Hotel of Ogden, Utah. Far westerners to man, Democrats all, they had been invited there by Joseph Chez, Ogden lawyer, and Fred W. Johnson, lawyer from Rock Springs, Wyo. There was a knowing look in their eyes as they discussed the prime purpose of their meeting? to "consider" who was the "most available" candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination next year. They named no names until all had assembled for formal business...
Died. George W. Hayes, one-time (1913-17) Governor of Arkansas; in Little Rock, of pneumonia...
...guilty of the sin of educational simony. Instead, the governing powers of the University during the period of her most concentrated growth saw that the only New England principles to be discarded in favor of others were those of a narrow nature; those which looked no further than the rock strewn hills and stormy coasts and which subjected the larger interests of the country to provincial considerations. What was best in the small New England college would serve more than adequately as the basis of a large representative university...
...eroding alloy of aluminum would do it, melted by electricity, circulated by hot air at a pressure of more than 250,000 Ibs. to the square inch. That is about the pressure of the earth's rocky crust 30 miles down, a pressure under which the friction of rock layers sliding on one another generates at least 1,600° Fahr. Such a hole would produce 4,000 horsepower if only 20% efficient, making steam of any quantity of water piped down it. If such a bore were impracticable, two larger shafts, five miles deep, could...
...Women are underpaid." ? Miss Lela Lackey of Little Rock...