Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Antonio M. Facio -- Miss Catherine Rock, Jackson College...
Opposite Vag was another granite wall, rising as steeply from the valley floor as the walls of a room. The vast expanse of bare rock, which swept upward with breath-taking rapidity, was as ponderously grand as the earth itself. Crowning the cliff was an abrupt line of forest; and Vag could imagine wandering into it. Here were no scrub-by pines with long dusty-green needles--mere chaparral growth such as covered the foot--hill slopes-but high-mountain firs and redwoods, giants which had already lived through many centuries. They formed an auditorium with a roof far above...
...high bank of the Hudson River near the braced, tremendous span of the George Washington Bridge, the City of New York owns 56 acres of rock ledge and greenery called Fort Tryon Park. There last week the mayor, the park commissioner, the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the world's greatest philanthropist dedicated a magnificent museum of medieval art. Named "The Cloisters," this finely-proportioned granite building with red tiled roofs lacks nothing but a chapter of Benedictines to be one of the most beautiful monasteries in the world...
...placid Connecticut now flows. But the Geology boys found one exposure, well known to curiosity seekers. Unsatisfied with the few footprints to be seen, and inspired by the scars where thieves had already managed to escape with several spear, the boys began to hack away at the layers of rock...
Guill Aertsen vindicated himself in the high-jump by clearing six feet and thus tying for first place with teammate Bob Haydock. In the broad-jump Rock Hollands upset the dope-sheets by placing second to Hunt Ethridge of Yale. Holland's distance was 22 ft., 5 5/3 inches...