Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition, Navy monuments will be erected on the Island of Corfu and on the rock of Gibraltar...
...inclusive faith than the multiformity of modern science and modern knowledge allows, bears an affinity to romantic nostalgia that is at times a little hard to stomach. The urge that leads so many romanticists to the Catholic Church has been called the desire of the jelly-fish for the rock. God has become the rage among the younger intellectuals in Europe. "La jeune France" has deserted almost en masse, under the leadership of Cocteau, to Rome. Synthesis and escape from this world's harsh disillusionments and an all-pervading peace come with incense and liturgy...
...George Ehret called it the Hell Gate Brewery. It was his ambition to make the best lager beer in the U. S. Fire burned down the Hell Gate Brewery. George Ehret built it up again. To get pure water he drilled an artesian well through 700 feet of rock. He would not defile good hops with city water. In 1871 he put out 33,512 barrels, and knew that he would be a rich man. He made up his mind to work harder. He had eight children. Every evening, coming home hungry, he tucked his napkin in his neck...
...Count (nephew of the Hungarian Minister at Washington who married Gladys Vanderbilt) slipped while climbing, fell from a jutting rock and was instantly killed...
Political Crisis. Such industrial hardships came fatefully on the eve of elections affecting one-third of the French Senate which will be held in mid-January. The present Senate is predominantly Conservative and has stood as the rock upon which Premier Poincaré has based his efforts to increase the value of the franc...