Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wrangel Island, 400 miles northwest of Bering Strait, is a forbidding mass of naked granite rock (35x70 miles), rising more than 2,000 ft. out of the Arctic Ocean. A dreary and blizzard-swept place, of tragic memory, it is nevertheless popular because of its possible usefulness as a base for future Arctic exploration...
...reflection upon any investigator who in good faith is seeking to expose crime or any other defection among public servants. The guilty individual, whether he be high or low, Democrat or Republican, must suffer the severest punishment. Upon this proposition the Republican Party stands firm as a rock. Yet let it be known that guilt knows no party...
...most surprising merger suggested has been the acquisition of various branch roads by the formerly disrupted but now promising Missouri Pacific. Now Southern Pacific enters the lists with a proposal to acquire the El Paso & Southwestern, and hints that it will next try to obtain the Rock Island system...
Ornately Carved In Solid Rock...
...chapel", he said, "is carved out of the rock cliff. It is about 40 feet square and every inch of the walls is carved with Buddhist figures. In the center there is a natural rock pillar which supports the chapel, on which are carved large elephant heads facing the four corners of the earth. As the elephant is not a native animal to China, Indian or Buddhist influences were firmly entrenched in China in the 5th century...