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Word: rocke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were indicted. She repeated her lurid story of a night last March when, as she and Franklin set out to be married, they were attacked by the defendants. She testified: "Connie yelled out 'Till, Till, they're akillin' me!' Then Joe White slammed a big rock on his haid. I couldn't help him none because Greenway was adraggin' me into the bushes. Then Hester came and helped Greenway do what he was doin' to me. I went back later and seen Connie layin' in the road. He was daid." Later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Arkansas Vindicated | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...monasteries of Mount Athos in Greece, which have changed scarcely by one syllable of a prayer since the 4th and 5th Centuries. Last week he was telling his friends, and editing a cinema film to show others, about a man of 79 who lives nearly naked under a rock on Mount Athos and whose word is: "God is love, and tolerance, and Nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Solitary | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

There apparently remains some doubt in the minds of certain Harvard students as to the merits of the Pilgrim Fathers. To settle this weighty question once and for all, and also to pass verdict on the passive role of the Plymouth Rock in the establishment of Boston society, a British Debating Team, composed of former members of English colleges, now at Harvard, and a Radcliffe College team are to clash tonight in Agassiz Hall, Radcliffe, at 8.15 o'clock in a bitter dispute. The question is: "Resolved, That it would have been better if the Plymouth Rock had landed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English and Radcliffe Debaters in Argument About the Versatility of Plymouth Rock--Debate in Agassiz House | 12/17/1929 | See Source »

...Named after an Italian boy, Balilla, who distinguished himself when Austrians besieged Genoa in 1800, by hurling a rock at the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Child Militia | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...deepest man-made hole in the world is in Orange County, Cal., 8,201 ft. deep. The deepest mine in the world is St. John del Rey in the stage of Minas Geraes, Brazil, about 7,200 ft. down, where toiling men blast gold ore from the hot rock walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plutonic Laboratories | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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