Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is one of the most interesting of the various stories told about the apes and was firmly believed by the British artillerymen who were stationed on the Rock during the World...
...HARWOOD ALLEN Cameron, Wis. Sirs: Allow an ardent TIME reader to highly commend the article in the Sept. 11 issue, entitled "In a Washroom." Here's hoping such a publication of facts will help to muzzle forever "a United States Senator in his cups." MRS. D. C. JOHNSTON Rock Hill, S. C. Sirs: Many thanks for "In a Washroom,'' under Political Notes, p. 16, issue of Sept. 11. If the incident, the details of TIME so skilfully presents, opens the gate to that long-desired path through which Huey is to be permanently shunted into...
...Binghamton, N. Y. on the Erie's main line. Week prior the Southern's Crescent Limited had lurched off a water-logged bridge into a raging river while entering Washington over the Pennsylvania's tracks, had killed two, injured 13. Five days later the Southern Pacific-Rock Island Golden State Limited had met with an almost identical disaster on the Southern Pacific's tracks near Tucumcari, N. M., had killed eight, injured 40 (TIME, Sept. 4 ). Both wrecks were due to sudden storms, could be set down as acts of God. But last week...
...naked except for matted tufts protruding from cheeks and forehead. It is yellowish brown & white, about the size of an Airedale, walks on four legs like its cousin the baboon. No tree-climber, it lives in Gibraltar's caves, is apt to turn up almost anywhere on the Rock...
...Watkins Glen, N. Y. last week State park officials found a deer perched on a narrow rock ledge jutting out from the face of a sheer 83-ft. cliff. What would happen if it tried to go backward or forward could be seen by looking down. In the gorge 35 ft. below lay the broken body of the deer's mate. Only hope of rescue seemed to lie in throwing a bridge from the chasm's opposite bank. But the park-men knew that their first move would probably startle the deer into leaping off the ledge...