Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holt's crew is employed to watch the children of married students. Hence they are given rock bottom wages. Holt is faced with the delicate problem of keeping two groups of students happy. He feels the married ones would feel the pinch too much if they were forced to pay the unmarried ones any more...
Westinghouse could see it used as an insulator in appliances such as refrigerators and stoves (it stands heat and cold well) and between metal sheets in prefabricated building units. Non-inflammable, it has a specific gravity between .008 and .012; among currently popular insulators, rock wool ranges from .15 to .25, fiber glass from .02 to .15. (Margery Sterling's meringue grades from .12 to .15.) Enough plastic foam to insulate a six-room house can be shipped in a single barrel, saving storage and trucking space, to the site where it will be used. A workman can soon...
...long. In time she became famous in her own field. The sight of her great plumed hats among auction bidders was enough to send auctioneers into a tizzy. Dealers learned to jump at her summons, and the news of one of her purchases for the Morgan Library could rock the whole book world. It was Belle who turned Morgan's first haphazard collection of treasures into one of the finest anywhere...
...hundred-odd spectators watched. Six lawyers for the defense hunched over their tables, facing the bench. Judge Medina began to rock, holding his hand to his face. McGohey rose to outline the Government's case to the jury of twelve and its four alternate members...
...handsomest of all the Caucasians are the aristocratic Abkhasians, who trace their lineage back to Prometheus; if the stranger doesn't believe it, they point out the Caucasian rock to which he was chained by Zeus for stealing the Olympian fire. Local legends say that the Abkhasians are endowed with a beauty that must one day prove their undoing, but from the Caucasus last week came news that one of the handsomest of them all was still doing fine. Mamsir Kiut was a boy of 17 when Napoleon marched on Moscow. In the village of Kindig, he took time...