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Word: rocke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night a storm wrecked their boat. The others gave up but Campbell stayed, got another boat and went on alone. Ten miles farther on, at a place called Alona Bay, his Geiger counter buzzed wildly. A two-inch seam of uranium-bearing pitchblende stood out on the shoreline rock. Said Campbell: "I suddenly wanted to shout to the whole world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: Bonanza Revisited | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...these two know how to use one. Sydney Granville, as Pooh-Bah, looks more like Friar Tuck than Lord High Everything Else, but he plays the part for all its' worth. As for Martyn Green, anyone who has ever seen the man in action knows that the show could rock and he'd still save...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: The Mikado | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

...iron men spent one hour on the road in making repairs, and another hour staring at Plymouth Rock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Cycle 100 Miles | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

...more or less), a race of pygmies lived on the treeless savannas of what is now the central Transvaal. These little people had apelike faces, stood possibly four feet high and weighed up to 100 Ibs. When they died, a few happened to leave their bones in lime-bearing rock where they would be preserved for eons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The First Fireman | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Overhead. In Little Rock, Ark., City Clerk R. A. Lange patiently explained to an applicant that before he could get a permit to build "a $15 chicken coop, he would have to submit a set of blueprints costing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

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