Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cities have high tuberculosis death rates. Tuberculous persons flock there seeking health. Statistician Frederick L. Hoffman reported in The Spectator last week that El Paso, Tex. last year had the highest pulmonary tuberculosis death rate in the U. S., 201.3 deaths per 100,000 population, followed by Little Rock, Ark. with 154.4. Large Negro and Mexican populations also up consumption death rates in Southern and Southwestern cities...
...villagers of Sequals, near Venice, will not soon forget the past fortnight. All ordinary business stood practically still while the populace, plus a stream of visitors from afar, milled around the Carnera house every day. They wanted to see the Gran Sasso (''Big Rock") as he trained for his ''fight" in Rome with Paulino Uzcudun. Bustling importantly, Carnera's father tried to wave the crowds away. "Let Primo alone!" he shrilled. But the crowds hung on, grateful for an occasional glimpse of the monstrous, slow-witted champion as he trotted out with his trainers...
...carnival, saw a youngster named Charles Goodell of New York's Curtis High School qualify for the finals Dec. 3 by booting four out of five over the cross bar. Major college football games last week: Virginia returned from its humiliation (75-to-0) by Ohio State, to rock a strong Columbia team to its heels. It outplayed Columbia throughout the first half, led 6-to-0. Then Columbia's Captain Cliff Montgomery rallied his team to victory, racing brilliantly for two touchdowns and making possible a field goal, 15-to-6. Fullback Regeczi started things early...
...wife and son both saw it and stood dumb with amazement; then to our horror the thing rushed up to a high rock and thrust its great head and neck a full ten feet out of the water and waved it about as if it were getting its bearings. It was some 500 yards away and I could not see the exact shape of its head, but it was much thicker than the body. Then it sank down into the water again and sped away, making a great wash of white foam...
Major Langley also put the creature's length at 80 ft., and likewise saw it waving its head near a rock. It was, in fact, said Major Langley, scratching its neck on the barnacles-after which, with something like a grin of gratification, it swashed off toward Chatham Island. It had, said Major Langley, a shaggy head with a long prognathous jaw and a face like a camel...