Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less than a week's meals, if they wish to escape payment for meals which they have missed. If, on the seventh day of the week during which he has declared his intention of buying no meals from the dining halls, a student from afar and absentmindedly orders White Rock and ice in his dining hall, under present rules he is charged for the seven days' meals which he misses...
...tank in the rear cockpit where Publisher Macfadden was wont to ride about the U. S. Taking off from Newark Airport late at night, Pilot Reichers roared to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, in 6 hr. 19 min. As he taxied up the field, the plane's tail skid threw a rock through the fuselage, injuring the stabilizer controls. Quickly repairing the damage, he sped off for Paris via Dublin. When finally forced down by a cracked wing and fuel shortage, Pilot Reichers was within 150 mi. of his scheduled stop, 51 mi. from land...
Nevertheless bald and owlish Dr. Otto Braun, the Socialist Leader who has ruled as Premier of Prussia for eleven years at the head of a rock-firm Socialist-Centrist coalition, was still last week in power. It was estimated that Dr. Braun will be able to muster 162 seats when the Diet convenes in June. Thus his coalition strength would exactly equal the strength of the Fascist Party alone. But Adolf Hitler can probably count on the support of "The Little Man In Blue," Dr. Alfred Hugenberg. newspaper tycoon and Nationalist leader. A Hitler-Hugenberg-Splinter-party coalition would muster...
...German geologist named Norton who was traveling through southwest Arkansas lately, Farmer J. L. Cox of Graysonia showed a hunk of red rock. "Cinna-bar," explained the geologist. "Put it in a fire pot. It will run quicksilver." That is one version of the start of a current rush to mine mercury in the Ozarks. Another version is that railroad laborers exposed a valuable vein of cinnabar near Amity when they blasted out some sandstone riprap...
...floods came and the winds blew and beat upon that house and it is still there, and will be till Hell freezes over; because the man that built it had brains enough to know what he was doing. Costs too much to build a house upon a rock...