Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Public Health Service showed Philadelphia with 1,418 cases against 92 in the same week last year, Baltimore with 411 to 3, St. Louis with 468 to 17, Salt Lake City with 506 to 1. San Francisco with 105 to 4. Boston, Cincinnati, Omaha, Memphis, Atlanta, Little Rock also held many a pimply, feverish face. The schools of Waterville, N. Y. were closed because of measles. Dancer Agnes de Mille, Hollywood-bound from England to act in one of her Uncle Cecil's cinemas, arrived in Manhattan with a well-developed case...
...Queen, if there ever was such a person, knew how to handle her own affairs and Solomon's; she would have founded her city on a rock and not on a desert. If any one claims that the character of the land has changed since the tenth century, B.C., they are mistaken. There is very little precipitation in Arabia, and the only things which tend to change the topography are sand storms, but these are few in number. Relics found in deep gulleys, where water would have flowed if there was much rain, are perfectly preserved; some tomb stones...
...Jerphanion, the one attempting to recapture the purity of his love for Helene Sigeau, and the other just emerging from the crises of adolescence and still struggling in the tolls of youthful lust. Both of them are seeking, amid the disillusionment of the decade before the war, some rock on which to build their lives. There are countless other characters: a fake critic, a great poet, a great statesman, and the dog Macaire, an hour of whose life, set down in six pages, gives us as vivid a picture of the canine world as all of Virginia Wolf's "Flush...
...Washington's is an exception) escape McConaughy's scorn. Few schoolboys who remember that Patrick Henry asked for liberty or death have been told that he later made his pile in the Yazoo land swindle. Famed Chief Justice John Marshall is yanked from his niche, called the rock on which the Funding Fathers "rested secure in the enjoyment of special privileges...
...events more strongly than the weight of precedent. That six Harvard instructors recognized it as well, and spoke their minds in a public letter to the president, is a hopeful sign, and a particularly welcome antidote to the bast of the Seven Sages from their crack in the rock of Sound Money. CASTOR...