Word: rocke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Incantations & TNT. Volcanoes, on the other hand, are less mysterious and more dangerous. Though they are worshiped as goddesses and damned as hellholes, bubbling craters are really just safety valves, through which molten rock (magma) under the earth's skin can blow off steam from time to time. Volcanoes can be depended on to act up every so often; since 79 A.D., when Pompeii and Herculaneum were first buried, old Vesuvius has popped off about once every generation...
...beliefs, nor a wild-eyed seizure upon something just because it is new, nor the investigation which starts with formed opinion, praiseworthy though that opinion may be can be honestly liberal. There is as much danger today from those whom one authority calls "dogmatic modernists" as from the traditional rock-ribbed reactionary. For liberalism in an approach, an attitude of mind, a way of life which meets an issue fortified with knowledge and intelligence, shorn of prejudice, and willing and anxious to make a decision and carry it through...
Cultures for the ski team's banal illness are the tired, rock studded slopes surrounding Cambridge. Even during their short show of skiableness they are notable only in their gentleness compared to the Appalachians, where most of the matches are held. Steep slalom and downhill runs and realistically rugged cross country trails are out of reach of day-to-day car-borne practice trips...
...John Rock '14, a clinical professor of gynecology at the Medical School, will be awarded the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation Award of the Planned Parenthood Federation of American in ceremonies at New York Tuesday, the Federation announced last night...
...Rock has written books on birth controls, abortion, and the causes and relief of infertility. The Parenthood group is honoring him for his contribution to 'scientific research providing practical foundations for relief of human disorders...