Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty disembarked at this modern hive of macaroni workers who dwell unconcerned above the buried ruins of Herculaneum, perhaps to be described as "the Newport of Imperial Rome." The city was obliterated by the same eruption of Vesuvius which engulfed Pompeii (1,848 years ago). Thirty feet of rock-hard lava cover the palaces of Herculaneum; but with the coming of His Majesty last week, rock drills began to purr and chatter...
...seriousness of the flood situation in the South. I have just come from Arkansas which has had to combat not only the overflow from the Mississippi river but floods from five rivers which flow across the State and empty into the Mississippi. For four days the city of Little Rock, of over 100,000 inhabitants, was completely cut off from the outside world except by telegraph and aeroplane. Similar conditions now exist in most of the towns and cities along the Mississippi. When the levee broke near Greenville, Mississippi, which is a prosperous city of 10,000 people, the water...
...Harvard professors who will have Sabbaticals during the year 1927-28 have announced that they will go abroad to do research work. L. C. Graton, Professor of Mining Geology, will study rock and ore formations in the world's deepest mines; and O. D. Kellogg, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Chairman of the Board of Tutors in the Division of Mathematics, will study tutoring in Mathematics as conducted in Cambridge University, England...
...Better leave!" neighbors warned three families living on the Flynn plantation, twelve miles east of Little Rock, Ark. "Think we'll stay-river won't get near us," they answered. Late that night, dwellers on higher ground saw lights, heard screams on the Flynn plantation. Soon the lights went out, the screams were silenced. In the morning there was deep water where three houses had stood...
...four and one third miles the Rove Tunnel, a canal 72 feet wide, 50 feet high, Cuts under the mountains of Nerthe from the port of Marseilles to the lake of Berre. Out of the mountains were hewn 2,500,000 cubic metres of dirt and rock to make a tube nearly three times as large as a two-track railway tunnel. It forms the most important link in a series of canals and dikes that will unite the Rhone River and Central France with Marseilles, buzzing port...