Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...savages almost out of their wits. Coming to Earth in northern Arizona, the monstrous cluster plunged into the desert, converted underground water into steam, hurled huge gobs of earth and stone skyward to fall back into the crater. The main body of the meteorite plunged on underground, shattered the rock strata into rubble, came to rest at last 1,200 or 1,500 ft. below the surface...
...over the ground, made a "magnetic profile." This showed two humps several hundred feet southwest of the rim, the larger covering an area 2,000 by 1,500 ft. He believes that the meteoritic clumps corresponding to these humps can be reached by sinking a shaft straight down through rock undisturbed by the meteorite's passage, then drifting sidewise through the troublesome watery strata which were broken by the impact. Even if the meteoritic bodies weigh no more than a million tons, at present prices they should be worth...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith Drury, 59, rector of St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., since 1911; of heart failure; in Boston. Passionately loved, feared, hated by his pupils, "The Rector" once said that American boarding schools, "if they wreck, will break not on the rock of scholarship, but on the shoals of snobbery...
Casey Jones (by Robert Ardrey; pro duced by The Group Theatre). The Sceneryless-Theatne Movement (Julius Caesar, The Cradle Will Rock, Our Toun) got a smack on the jaw last Saturday when the curtain went up on Casey Jones. There, covering the whole stage and appearing to race through the night, stretched a life-sized, glinting locomotive. The audience let loose a tornado of applause. But the rest of Casey Jones, instead of roaring straight ahead, backed in and out of rail road yards, got shunted off on sidings...
...Rock Hollands...