Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contrast to the South's convictions, Mid-Westerners consider all Harvard men rock-ribbed reactionaries. Tied in with this political conception is the belief that the average Cambridge Scholar is the epitome of the social snob. One student from Indian discovered he had not been invited to several parties at the state university simply because beer was to be the beverage of the day. Harvard men, the local boys felt, would quaff nothing but the more expensive and refined scotch...
Although the Mountaineering Club's rolls include a lengthy list of graduate members, most of the active climbers are still in the College. In preparation for their yearly altitude tests, the Club spends its summers polishing up rock climbing and rope techniques, and teaching the fundamentals to newcomers...
...another spot. His father tried it and struck a cool, clear gusher. Pieter nodded wisely. Some years later his schoolteacher lost a gold ring under the sand and Pieter found it for him with a single glance. Ever since then Pieter (now 16) has been kept busy peering through rock and sod in search of underground treasure...
Last week, after drilling for 18 days through 140-odd feet of hard rock, the engineers hit water. Salisbury, announced the mayor proudly, was now assured of at least 403,200 gallons a week...
Surrealist Landscapes. A sense of wonder pervaded the journals that Lewis & Clark kept. They expected to find mammoths and perhaps stranger prehistoric creatures. There was said to be a mountain of solid rock salt somewhere along their way, 180 miles long and 45 miles wide. They came into a land where they were shut in by steel-blue mountains, so alike that they seemed to have come into a country of mirrors. Once Meriwether Lewis, exploring alone the Great Falls of the Missouri, found himself studying the water foaming over the high masses of rocks. Below him the Missouri stretched...