Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...negotiations are well under way for a merger between the Southern Pacific and the El Paso and Southwestern. The acquisition of this road will give the Southern Pacific a new outlet into Mexico. It will also connect the Southern Pacific directly with Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific. Following the El Paso merger, the next step naturally will be a merger with the Rock Island. That would give the Southern Pacific a direct line into Chicago, what it has always desired...
...England, however, home of rock-bound tradition, the thing has been done, and no less a personage than H. M. Queen Mary, royally prim and sensitive, has vigourously acclaimed the innovation. The prizefight opera was given a private performance last week before representatives of the Court and critics. Enthusiasm was unbounded. Experts marvelled at the way in which the composer handled his difficult subject...
...babbitt consciousness. His reddest Indian, his most blushful sunset, his glaringest desert appear before the eye, often with a marked degree of credibility. The characters thus incolorated are incarnated in Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Kathlyn Williams, Billie Dove. These, together with Death Valley, the Arizona cacti, Red Rock Canyon?flawless in beauty all?glorify themselves forever...
...after ex-champion A. G. Havers). Play was still led, at 302, for 72 holes, by Whitcombe, until sleek "Walto" added up his 301 and shook hands with everybody. It was a brilliant "victoree," it re-convinced golfdom that beneath "Walto's" glossy and bond-salesman manner there lie rock-ribbed nerves and a truly sporting temperament...
...return trip, partly to the fact that westward the pilot is beating the sun, eastward he is travelling in a direction opposite to that of the sun, and therefore flies faster over Mother Earth. The actual night flying zone will extend only 1,460 miles between Cleveland and Rock Springs, Wyo., with 335 miles from Cleveland to Chicago, and 240 miles from Cheyenne to Rock Springs, illuminated only when the long days of Summer have disappeared. The illuminated airway, a marvel of engineering, has received the coöperation of the General Electric Co., the Sperry Gyroscope...