Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strain of forces acting upon it-volcanic forces, shifts of pressure due to erosion, possibly tidal forces and the centrifugal pull of terrestrial rotation. There are vertical thrusts, sending up new islands to astonish mariners, building new mountains, deepening the seas; horizontal movements producing faults or sudden slips of rock masses along previously existing faults...
...running around poodle-naked und throwing medicine balls! Ridiculous! Now you take me. Effery morning of my life at seven o'clock in de morning I valk down de railroad traggs in Sout' Braintree Massajusetts until I am in de voods. And den I sid on a rock, and take off all my glothes and schmoke a tsigar and rhead Omar Kayyam. But do I have to choin a Verein? Do I haf to have a Praesident und a Honorary Praesident...
...when it came to earnings Mr. Baker was worried. Expenses could not be trimmed any more without hurting the bank's business. The annual payroll had been cut another $200,000 to $4,600,000, and the staff of 2,141 employes was at rock bottom. Seven branches had been closed, leaving 66. Including large profit from Government bond trading, probably a non-recurring item, earnings for 1934 would be about $4,900,000, down slightly from the year before. So, with no end to the Government's easy money policy in sight, Banker Baker recommended...
...Ruby Keeler is the general's daughter who, when her father has been assigned to the Point as Superintendent, watches Powell, wearing a shako and a beatific grin, graduate four years later. Between times, Flirtation Walk investigates such West Point traditions as plebe hazing, commencement exercises and the Kissing Rock under which Miss Keeler fails to entice Powell. A One Hundredth Night Show gives the stars a chance to sing songs called "Flirtation Walk," "No Horse, No Wife, No Mustache," "Mister and Missus Is the Name...
Baiata and his cronies were on the point of sealing the deal with the Indianapolis bank?the signal for the looting to start?when they were rounded up and Lincoln Life remained unravished. Last week it was quietly sold to rock-sound Illinois Bankers Life Assurance...