Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before it branches into two smaller fjords. One of these is the Nordals Fjord and 15 mi. farther inland, on the narrow sills of shore, are the two tiny villages of Tafjord and Fjoraa. For months the villagers have looked up at a great overhanging jut of rock that was beginning to crack of its own weight. Some day, they knew, it would fall and splash into the fjord. But no one guessed how big that splash would...
They noticed a large boulder on the shore of the lake, about a quarter of a mile from home. They decided that when the shell was abreast of that rock they were to skyrocket the beat...
Cassedy rested wearily over his oar and then looked up at Bissell. "I'm sorry," he said. "I thought we were getting behind and you were becoming panicky. I never did see that rock...
...calcium and phosphorous. The disease, which produces circus sideshows' "stone men," is usually not fatal to adults, sometimes causing only a local ossification. Some physicians think there is a long chance of saving Benjamin Hendrick, whose back, thighs and upper arms are already hard as rock, if his parathyroids can be stimulated to check the flow of calcium. But most of the doctors at his bedside believe the hardening will go on & on until it reaches some vital organ and stops it for good...
...American Banker discovered that instead of lending more freely in the best Jones manner, the Jones bank had substantially increased its cash and Government bond holdings until it was more than 80% liquid. Loans & discounts had actually decreased. The Jones bank was rock-sound but apparently it had found good borrowers as scarce as any non-Jones bank in the land...