Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarry which will be the scene of their efforts was first worked several years ago by Dr. Walcott of the Smithsonian Institute, when this noted scientist, who has since died, exploited the region with unusual success. It appears that the rock structure of the quarry is of a very dense nature, and hence is extremely suited for the preservation of delicate fossils...
Although the acts transmitted by television suffered most of the defects of the early moving pictures, in that they were lacking the depth and detail of a film picture, and the image had an occasional tendency to rock from side to side, all shades of the photograph were present, and the sound synchronism was perfect. Perfection of this science is no thing of the distant future, as is shown by the fact that Dr. Alexanderson is soon to study practical conditions for the realization of some of his ideas at the invitation of the Navy...
THIS is the rawest book I have ever seen. It is like a burnt over forest of scrub pine. There is not one bit of human warmth in its two hundred fifty odd pages, just the lowest form of men and women crawling over bleak rock with one cut throat instinct "to persist". To say the book is depressing is to say nothing. "Bottom Dogs" is a social document of man neither civilized nor un-civilized...
...Rock Island (which, remarkably, shows a slight gain in March earnings...
There is such a thing as being pennywise and pound-foolish. In the long run the few dollars lost gained by keeping salaries at rock bottom will seem few indeed compared to the work that will be done in greener fields by men who might have remained here had genuine effort been made to retain them. That work though it will have its monetary value--will not and cannot be gauged in dollars and cents. It will be the life work of devoted scientists and professors and that type of work always and successfully resists arithmetical computation. --The Minnesota Daily...