Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Door Jam. In Rock Springs, Wyo., the judge who fined Cecil Jones for intoxication had to stand outside Jones's cell to do it: Jones had mistaken the lock on the door for a slot machine, jammed it full of nickels...
...Life. Never high, Russia's living standards today touch rock bottom. Hunger and overwork are bad enough. But the Russian has also to cope with shortages of nearly every item of daily use, from frying pans to buttons and pencils...
...Rock. Soon after their marriage Nancy and Freddy went to Mexico City. Nancy came down with typhoid and trench mouth. Her parents flew to her side. Freddy came every day to the hospital, twice gave blood for a transfusion...
Said the London Times last fortnight in its Literary Supplement: "A book so real, austere, singular, rugged and wild as the world it depicts, as though hewn from the basalt rock, such monumental sculpture as Travels in Arabia Deserta cannot be forever ignored. Yet it needed a world war to awaken the English people to their possession of a treasure which may stand an age and beyond like Stonehenge. . . . He could make no compromise with the English he called 'Victorian and Costermongery.' Forty years ago he wrote to Doctor Hogarth: 'My main intention was not so much...
...space of 24 hours, on October 6, another honorary degree was granted, this time to Cardinal Desire Felicien Francolise Joseph Mercier, Belgium's hero primate. Describing Cardinal Mercier, as "a great rock in the wilderness," Lowell conferred the honor before an assembly of dignitaries at Sanders Theatre...