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Word: rocke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suggestion that butter wouldn't melt in her mouth and steel bars would bend in her hands, she is not so much a broad caricature as a pure original. She is forced to overdo the whole thing, but in such individual numbers as A Little Girl from Little Rock it richly pays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...been made. Artists had just put the last bright reds and yellows to the 25-ft. mural showing a Puerto Rican feast-day celebration; roulette wheels, chemin de fer and dice tables had been moved into the casino. The blue-tiled swimming pool cut out of the coral rock and the bright yellow-awninged beach cabanas were all ready for the first guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Smith, working from his usual post under the backboard, picked up 20 points to trail Rock well in scoring. Gerry Murphy, Jim Gable, and Bill Hickey started on the back line. Murphy's push shot from outside was effective against the concentrated Navy defense...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Navy Staves Off Late Rally, Edges Five, 70-68, at Garden | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Certain silence compounds, the principle subject of Rochow's experiments, have an organic behavior, while retaining their original properties. Silicated substances may be developed that have the resilency of rubber, but are unaffected by the highest temperatures, because of the rock-compounds from which they are formed. Others may comprise a near perfect water-repellent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Gift Suggestions | 12/2/1949 | See Source »

...Each His Own. In Little Rock, Ark., the court awarded Mrs. Ruth Whitney a divorce and 231 household items, gave her husband "one rocking chair and one handmade doghouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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