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Word: rocke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been split for two years between the Russians on the one hand and the U.S. on the other. U.N. seemed, in fact, a good deal like a Town Meeting of Two Worlds. And even if the U.S. and Russia were to settle their differences, U.N.'s really rock-bottom problem remained. Chicago's Robert Maynard Hutchins had stated it well two years ago. He said: "A world state can arise and endure only on the solid foundations of a world community. No such community exists. . . . The only hope is to increase the rate of moral progress tremendously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Town Meeting of Two Worlds | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

Many kinds of ore cannot be detected by geophysical instruments. Their reactions to electric currents and other physical tests are too much like the "country rock" around them. But all minerals are soluble in water to some extent. Ground water seeping through the rock may pick up so much of a metallic salt that the metal's presence can be detected by ordinary chemical analysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prospecting Above Ground | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

Spread along the eastern Thames shore about four miles above New London and about a mile below Gales Ferry, Yale's headquarters, Red Top stands on a wooded slope in solitude, characterized by a leisurely, narrow, rock-strewn path from the dormitory and dining hall through the foliage to the boathouse...

Author: By Richard A. Green, | Title: Crew En Route to Washington Race | 6/24/1947 | See Source »

...want to live." That, says the pamphlet, is "the submissive Jewish Agency way." On another page stands a youth with a Tommy gun: "The fighting Hebrew resistance way!" Hecht on official Zionists: "They gabble . . . they want a sanctuary where the Jews of Europe can all stand on a rock and eat philanthropy-fish till the Messiah arrives. . . . Jewish wealth and respectability are fearlessly rushing sandwiches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Umbrella into Cutlass | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Died. Glenn Allan Millikan, 40, mountain-climbing physiology professor at Vanderbilt University Medical School, son of Nobel Prizewinning Nuclear Physicist Robert A. Millikan; when a rock fell on him while he was scaling a cliff; in Pikesville, Tenn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

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