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Word: rocke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edgar Hoover's life. Until her death in 1938, the man most feared by mobsters had continued to make his home with her in the house where he was born, on Washington's Seward Square. Two years later he bought a $25,000 house near fashionable Rock Creek Park. But Bachelor Hoover has never been seen escorting another woman to this day. His constant companion on occasional trips to the ballpark or for a weekend in Manhattan is the handsome, snap-brimmed FBI No. 2 man, Clyde Tolson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: The Watchful Eye | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...first man to snatch a Wells Fargo treasure box,* but he was far & away the most dashing. Wearing a flour sack with cutout eyeholes over his head and a long linen duster, he pulled his first job one sun-baked day in July by stepping out from behind a rock on a Calaveras County road and waving a sawed-off shotgun at Billy Hodges' stagecoach. "If they dare to shoot, give them a solid volley, boys," Black Bart shouted toward the rocks alongside the road. Driver Hodges, able to see half a dozen gun barrels covering him, eagerly threw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stagecoach Business | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...lordship, Stoke is "an exciting experiment"-the end of his lifelong dream to give a university education to all the John Elkins of Britain. "Some have told me," says he, "that ... I am proposing to put a lever under a rock which has stood in one place for a great many years. Well, then, at my age, I cannot afford to wait too long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Experiment at 70 | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...Hands. In North Little Rock, Ark., police arrested N. B. Beaugard for changing his shirt while driving through the city's main street in a rainstorm at 75 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 1, 1949 | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Q.E.D. In North Little Rock, Ark., Beatrice Satterfield's husband explained to police how she happened to back his car through the side of a neighbor's house: "She wanted to prove to me that she could drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 25, 1949 | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

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