Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dread of war jabbed deep into U. S. citizens when New York City's Transportation Board observed that rock-cut subways would make perfect bombproof shelters, when policemen were assigned to power stations, docks and vital factories to guard against sabotage...
...Privy Council, become a quasi-dictator and stay at Buckingham Palace, beneath whose gardens were built prodigious bombproof quarters for King, retinue, servants. Queen Elizabeth and the two Princesses stayed on at Balmoral Castle, where gas masks were issued to all. Later they would go to Windsor Castle, whose rock, looming above the fabled cricket fields of Eton, was tunneled and chambered invulnerably for them and for art treasures from Buckingham Palace as well as the Castle. Queen Mary obdurately insisted on staying at Sandringham on the dangerous east coast...
...Palo Alto, Calif., San Francisco's Dr. Edna H. Fisher described to a Pacific Science Congress how an otter eats a clam. Description: after catching a clam the otter dives to the ocean floor, picks up a hefty rock, rises to the surface, floats on his back, balances the rock on his belly, clasps the clam between his forepaws, brings it down on the rock with a mighty whack. Shell broken, the otter eats...
...prior to the time that your forefathers were here. . . . This reflects no discredit upon you, or anyone else, as there are thousands of loyal American citizens who cannot trace their ancestry to the early Spanish colonists in the Southwest, or to the noble American colonists of Jamestown and Plymouth Rock. . . . We are Americans also, Mr. Editor...
...August 15, 1914-the end of eight years' struggle during which Dr. William Crawford Gorgas licked yellow fever and General George Washington Goethals' 50,000 ditch diggers licked 200,000,000 cubic yards of dirt and rock-the day the Panama Railroad's steamship Ancon made the first transit from Atlantic to Pacific...