Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...single cent for commissions or services, took its reward in a sense of civic duty well done. Temporarily rescued, Tammany's Walker remarked: "Talk about the market! My blood pressure dropped seven points today to 103, a new low!"* In Chicago where municipal credit has long been at rock bottom, financial relief also came into sight last week when the Illinois Legislature passed a bill to revamp Cook County's taxing machinery. A non-political taxing board, under this measure, will replace elective assessors whose lopsided and unfair assessments have been the root of Chicago...
...this week. In its flight the plane will accomplish, in unforeseen manner, the dream of Cecil John Rhodes. It was his ambition to see a British railway "from the Cape to Cairo." The railway is not yet finished. But the 18-passenger ship which crosses Rhodes's rock-hewn grave is the first of a weekly service of Imperial Airways connecting not only Cape & Cairo, but both of them with London and India...
...alterations consist of removing various old partitions, some sinks, and some built-in cupboards in the section. New partitions of glass, sheet-rock, and wire grating are being installed in their place, which will divide the section up into four large rooms for laboratory use and the smaller offices...
...Swann, president of the American Physical Society, looked waggish as he talked in ancient puns on "reality." In reality he was deadly serious. Said he: "Reality is the most alluring of all courtesans, for she makes herself what you would have her at the moment. But she is no rock on which to anchor your soul, for her substance is of the stuff of shadow; she has no existence outside your own dreams and is often no more than the reflection of your own thoughts shining upon the face of nature. The materialist will tell me that . . . he sees...
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