Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Although uncared for for many hundreds of years the walls of the tremendons citadel which defended the town are still over 40 feet high. Whole appartments of chambers are hewn in the living rock of the precipitous cliff and engraved with the auuals of the dynasty of kings in the Vannic language which is only partly understood, and whose exact linguistic connections are a matter of hot dispute...
...Morgan had come down from New York to air his views on finances and housemaids, the law school professor saw him late one afternoon in the lobby of the Shoreham. J. P. was standing alone in front of one of the big windows, looking out over snow-covered Rock Creek Park, whistling a gay tune aloud. On his way to the bar our friend stopped for a moment; he thought he had heard the song some place before. He had; it was "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin...
Heavily muffled and bundled against the cold, Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah is taking his daily stroll in Washington's Rock Creek Park. He is set upon by two young women in men's clothes. One pinions his arms. The other fumbles beneath his heavy overcoat in search of his wallet. The Senator breaks loose, casts about with his cane, whistles shrilly. Foiled, the two young women turn, flee...
...straits of Election Year, between the Rock of Taxes and the Whirlpool of Deficit, he realized last week that it would require serious effort on his part to find a safe political passage. Secretary Morgenthau conferred with him nearly every day. Budget Director Bell, Secretaries Wallace and Ickes, Assistant WPAdministrator Williams, RFChairman Jones, Rexford G. Tugwell, Chester Davis, Housing Administrator McDonald came & went. It would be safer to steer a little toward the Rock of Taxes, for the Congressional current would suck him back anyway to the Whirlpool. Hence he confirmed the fact that he would ask about half...
...these outcries was largely geological. Florida gets its rain in summer, but it grows its money crops, oranges, grapefruit, tangerines, avocados, celery, spinach, other truck, by irrigation in winter. Most of the water in central and southern Florida comes out of the "Ocala limestone." This dome-shaped stratum of rock comes to the surface only near Ocala, but it spreads out under all of Florida, is 100 ft. below sea level in the neighborhood of Orlando, 300 ft. below at St. Augustine. Winter rains around Ocala seep into the limestone which serves as a sort of natural reservoir under most...