Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disclaimer. In Little Rock, Ark., Ernest Horton Jr. paid a $25 fine for shooting a goose out of season, but insisted: "It was just an accident . . . I'm really not that good a shot...
...measuring lighting do so with ingenious little instruments called photometers, which register in "foot-candles." The unit equals just about the amount of light turned about the amount of light turned out by an ordinary 100 watt bulb ten feet away; lighting engineers have set 15 foot-candles as rock-bottom for any room in which people will be reading or writing. And there is not a big lecture room in the College that tops ten. Under ideal conditions, Emerson D varies from six to eight, Mallinckrodt MB-9 just reaches nine, and the handsome new indierctly-lit lecture room...
Johnny Rockwell had been fouled while putting in a layup just as the buzzer sounded, and had then sunk the charity toss to make the score 55-50. But the referees went into huddle, decided the timing device had bee wrong, and disallowed both the basket and the foul. Rock hopes to get that one back plus a couple more tonight...
...time of corporate, impersonal journalism, doughty old John Netherland Heiskell is a holdout. The lean and gimlet-eyed boss of Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette snorts at the notion that a newspaper is just a 6% investment: it is first of all an institution, says he, and only incidentally a business. Because his paper is a great success in both roles, numerous buyers have greedily eyed it. Heiskell has always talked to them as sternly as if they were asking for the hand of one of his two daughters...
...Baltimore, a rock-ribbed racing town, the fans are used to topnotch jockeys; they have watched the likes of Earl Sande and Eddie Arcaro for years. But last week a 17-year-old "bug boy"† from Texas, Clarence Picou, had the town talking...