Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan banking firms of Speyer & Co. and J. & W. Seligman & Co. now control the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. (the Frisco). In the past two months, they have quietly been buying up a substantial interest in the Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. (the Rock Island), an interest which the directors of the Frisco announced last week had been acquired by them with a view to merging the two systems. The new system will have the longest trackage in the world-13,585 miles, 5,546 in the Frisco and 8,039 in the Rock Island-overrunning by more than...
...Palestinian Room of the Museum may be seen such objects as blocks of rock salt from the mountain at the southern end of the Dead Sea, the region of the story of Lot's wife; specimens of fine, bright-colored stone, such as Solomon may have used in building the Temple; models giving reproductions of the Tabennacle, of the Temple of Solemon, and of the Temple of Herod; tiles from the Tenth Roman Legion stationed at Jerusalem in the first century; hand mills, such as were used by the women of old and are used by the women...
...Another Uncle, Dr. C. W. Coolidge won third prize in the Buff Plymouth Rock Cockerels class in a poultry show at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. He had but a single entry against 18 prizewinners from the entire country...
Their excitement was caused by the fact that the Bank of France had long suspected the Hungarian-Fascist Albrechtists of being in some way connected with the French bank-note counterfeiting. It was now decided to make an exhaustive search of the 15 miles of natural tunnels in the rock upon which Windisch-Graetz Castle stands. The tunnels had once romantically housed the adherents of the famed Hungarian revolutionary Prince Francis Rakoczy. They might now have been unromantically degraded to the use of counterfeiters. The French detectives poked about with flashlights during many a weary night, found nothing...
...mysterious disappearance of the fabled Atlantis, which Plate mentions as being just beyond the Gates of Hercules in his time. Perhaps in the future when American history is no longer honeycombed with patriotic myths, school-children in addition to learning that the Pilgrims did not and on Plymouth Rock, will also be taught that Columbus sailed west, not because he thought the World was round, but because a Mendelian instinct inherited from Cro-Magnon ancestry, showed him that there was land in that direction...