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Word: rocke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress knows it. The young people know it best of all. But the prohibitionists don't know it. The Bellevue-Stratford and. Ritz-Carlton in Philadelphia station these prohibitionists near the serving pantries of their hotel. They see large glasses of orange juice and bottles of White Rock and club soda going to many rooms on every floor. These good people raise their eyes to heaven and say, now that we have Prohibition, the people are really drinking orange juice and soda water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Repeal & Return | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...last week to receive a report from the public utility group of his business revival committee that utility building projects for 1930 would total $1,500,000,000. ¶ President Hoover, with Mrs. Hoover, attended the funeral of Mabel Hunter Richey, late wife of Hoover Secretary Lawrence Richey. From Rock Creek Cemetery the President drove to the Wyoming Avenue home of William Howard Taft. There he called upon the wife of the dying 27th President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Mar. 10, 1930 | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...scurried about the country last week to round up such famed rebuttal witnesses as Henry Ford and Albert Pritchard Sloan. This was because of the mounting pile of evidence from outstanding industrialists and Big Business executives that Prohibition is a failure. The economic benefit of Prohibition is a prime rock on which Drys rest their major argument for its preservation. Against that rock last week fell splintering blows delivered by William Wallace Atterbury, president of Pennsylvania R. R. ("Standard Railroad of the World"), Republican National Committeeman from Pennsylvania, and Pierre Samuel duPont, board chairman of E. I. duPont de Nemours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Repeal & Return | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...room is a vast hollow of jade, in multi-colors and multitudinous shapes. In another great room are glass cases on glass pedestals. In the cases and placed around the walls are his many-colored rock specimens. They all seem frozen in crystal. Near the ceiling runs a frieze composed of transparencies which show western mountain scenes in colors. Varying illumination behind the transparencies shows how the original scenes change in appearance from dawn to night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Boyce Thompson Institute | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

Rickety, rickety, rickety, rock, We leave Philly at seven o'clock, Leave New York smack at five; Ride the Reading, be alive-Rah, rah, rah, Seven o'Clockers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Galoshes | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

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