Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Internationalized Tangier commands the Strait of Gibraltar. This Strait is at present dominated by Britain at "the Rock" (Gibraltar), and it is a fixed tenet of British policy to brook no rivals. The "menace" referred to by Mr. Chamberlain referred to reports that Abd-el-Krim was preparing to attack the Tangier zone...
...Peary and the Bowdoin steamed on again, picking their way cautiously through rock-strewn channels. They threaded Windy Tickle to lie in the lee of Cape Harrigan while MacMillan and Engineer Jaynes went to Jack's Lane to recover supplies cached there by MacMillan on his last return from the Arctic...
Going. In Battle Harbor, Labrador, a place of gray rock domes, fretted shoreline, low islands: and a horizon studded with icebergs, the Bowdoin, flagship of Explorer Donald B. MacMillan's Polar expedition, lay at anchor waiting for her consort, the Peary. When the latter turned up, she explained that a fierce storm near the Strait of Belle Isle had forced her to heave to for fear of damage to the expedition's three Navy planes which she carried lashed to her decks. Board screens had been erected against the hammering seas and no damage was done...
...children. It numbers 28 rooms, including eleven master bedrooms, a huge reception room, a dining room, sun-parlor, music room and six servants' bedrooms. Across the entire rear of the house, facing the bay, are porches. A lawn slopes down to the water. The view includes Egg Rock, recently converted by the Massachusetts legislature into the Henry Cabot Lodge Memorial Bird Sanctuary, and across the Bay, on the Nahant promontory, the home of the late Senator himself. On the grounds is also a swimming pool which the President examined but expressed no intention of using. Its temperature is 55?...
...foundation of the Great West Road is of 12 in. of stone or other hard substance, on which is placed 9 in. of cement and a wearing surface of 2 in. of rock asphalt. It is 120 ft. wide for most of its length and a space of approximately 25 ft. has been left for future widening. Footpaths run at either side and planting of trees 60 ft. apart has begun...