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Word: rocke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills, riding in Washington's Rock Creek Park, was thrown from his horse, invalided with strained neck and shoulder muscles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 23, 1931 | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...went in the blazing sun," she wrote, "round a big rock. . . . I looked up-and bang! There was Einstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reporters Disagree | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...considerable section has been cut away from the hill which lies between the southeast corner of Widener Library making a jagged escarpment more than a dozen feet high through the bed rock. This will be levelled off and steps or terraces planted with shrubbery will be constructed. It is hoped that these operations will be completed, and the ground covered with grass at the time of occupation of the new dormitories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWER GROUND AROUND NEW FRESHMAN HALLS | 2/18/1931 | See Source »

France will (possibly) use her rock as a seaplane base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Clipperton Island | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

Therefore the commission suggested (Parliament must vote on all such matters) that thoroughgoing assent to the Thirty-Nine Articles no longer be required of priestly candidates. In other words the commission would chip and rub smooth the 39-faceted Rock of the Church of England, to ease the Anglican way to Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Priests v. Bishops | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

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