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Word: rocke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime product of both their States. Governor Clark pitched his spuds forward into his basket; Governor Barrows scrabbled backwards into a basket between his long, straddled legs (see cut). The winner: Maine's Barrows, 201 lbs. to 197 lbs. He apologized :"I probably had a four-pound rock in there." Idaho's Clark explained: "Your potatoes are smaller and more slippery than ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Muffled Broadside | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...xylophone player, an accordion maestro, and an English horn player completed the list of individual musicians, and a six-piece orchestra called the "Crimsonians" then took the spotlight. How to hit a rock while shooting rapids in a canoe was revealed by the final performer, described as a "lecturer." Russell T. Sharpe '28 director of the Bureau, said that a descriptive folder about the students would be sent to 2000 possible clients...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Entertainers Display Talents In Yearly Employment Bureau Trials | 10/7/1938 | See Source »

...Watch Hill, Westerly and Charlestown, R. I. loss of life was heavy. Scores of people who took refuge in the highest dunes were swept away by mountainous seas which carved a new coastline. Well Rock lighthouse at Point Judith was hammered down. So was Prudence Island lighthouse, killing the tender's wife and son. Charlestown was wiped out. Seven school children were drowned in a bus on Jamestown Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Abyss from the Indies | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...prosperous banker took a great deal of time to explain how he and his countrymen were prepared to get out and defend the country to the last tree and rock. "The women too," he added. "They'll go out there and shoot at the Germans. If anyone thinks they'll get through the Sudeten hills, they're very much mistaken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Juniors Find Czechs Prepared To Resist Invasion by Nazis | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

...with 400 officials of local medical organizations in the Red Lacquer Room of Chicago's Palmer House. Purpose: consideration of the proposed Federal health program. Dr. Harrison H. Shoulders of Nashville, Tenn., speaker of the House, Dr. Irvin Abell of Louisville, Ky., president of the Association, and Dr. Rock Sleyster of Wauwatosa, Wis., president-elect, exhorted the delegates. All three opposed "political control," reiterated the A. M. A.'s desire to "benefit the people." Said President Abell, referring to the National Health Conference: "Without calling the organized medical profession . . . into conference, a vast plan affecting health and medical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Almost Revolutionary | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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