Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seventeen miles out to sea she sailed to inspect White Rock Island, under the lee of Santa Catalina Island.* Its two acres of level tableland formed of whitish rock, sheering out of the sea and covered only with stunted growth, looked good to her. Her desire to possess it became fixed...
...investigation she found that White Rock did not belong to Santa Catalina, nor to California...
...till 12 o'clock to read you through. Tonight I am pausing at page 10, to ask if somebody, somewhere, can't unearth a few new stories about Mrs. Hoover? These that have been served up since before the campaign began are getting somewhat antiquated?awfully so! The Carboniferous rock age story, the Boxer bullets, the £70 purse tossed in London, the drives across from Iowa to California and back, the no jewelry and always low heels, were all good in their day; but now that all the magazines (including TIME)?that is, practically all?have dully...
...branch from the main line will run: Dallas-Little Rock-Memphis (junction)-Louisville-Cincinnati-Columbus (competitive Transcontinental Air Transport take-off)-Pittsburgh. Then Pittsburgh-Washington and Pittsburgh-New York...
...commissioners had every reason to expect that their instructions would be broad, penetrating, exhaustive. President Hoover is not merely an astute politician. He has a mind which, given a curious pebble, wants at once to investigate a whole rock formation, an entire geologic...