Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no vegetation around the lakes, but there was plenty of ice-free rock which looked to non-geological Navy eyes as if it might be ore-bearing. There was no steam or other evidence of volcanic activity...
Speaker Joe Martin thought things were shaping up nicely. He had just seen his brood of House Republicans drop their squabbles, and obediently line up to be counted for a rock-solid party vote. The issue was the constitutional amendment to limit a President to two terms. Not a Republican wavered as Democratic whip John McCormack wailed: "It will make the Constitution rigid. It ties the hands of future generations." Of the 238 Republicans present, 238 voted right. With 47 Democrats joining them, the vote was 15 more than needed for a two-thirds majority. Joe was pleased...
...done. The Navy's Antarctic expedition was primarily interested in 1) bolstering U.S. Antarctic claims and 2) training Navy personnel for Arctic operations. Notable findings: great, mountain-bordered bays never mapped before (see map); a newly discovered peak, Mt. X-Ray (15,000 ft.); plenty of bare rock, of interest to mineral hunters...
...chiefly responsible for this thriller's good qualities is evidently Delmer Daves, who wrote the script, found and imaginatively used the excellent back-country locations, and directed some remarkably fresh scenes of adolescent love and rebellion. Veterans Robinson and Anderson are rock-solid in their roles until Mr. Robinson is required to go too melodramatically bats. Lon McCallister, 23, whose nascent film career (Stage Door...
...Office of Katharsis. Professor Levin argues that Joyce's "imaginative constructions are ... grounded on the rock of his buried religious experience." Strictly speaking, Joyce's religious experience was adolescent. He was barely out of his teens when he renounced Ireland and with it the Roman Catholic Church. Much has been made of his Jesuit education, of how his mind was formed by Catholicism and in particular by St. Thomas Aquinas. It is equally true to say that his mind was formed about as independently as any mind ever was. His mocking The Holy Office, written in 1904 against...