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Word: rocke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army, Yale and Princeton normally round out the League, although the Tiger's this year are not in the running. While Dartmouth now rides the crest of the wave, the West Point Cadets are scraping rock bottom with no prospects of rising. Four League losses topped by a 9 to 1 shellacking at the hands of the Elis round out a generally dismal season. Wingman Art Snyder lines up as their only real scoring threat, while goalie Gerald Wojciehoski has stood up staunchly in the nets under a hall of flying pucks...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/14/1947 | See Source »

...line marches, and winter trips which involve harder work than walking, are sometimes softened by feminine presence, but when rock-climbing projects are planned, the girls often drop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outing Clubbers Leave Cambridge For Purer Clime | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

With University enrollment swelled to twice its pre-war size, the sick lists from Stillman might be expected to show a parallel increase. But figures released by Dr. Arlie V. Rock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygienen, show that the number of sicknesses have reached an all-time low. Less than one-third of the normal number of patients have been taken in during the first half of the College year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sick List Is Short In Veteran-Heavy Post-War College | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Short Wave. Near the Scilly Isles, England, BBC Announcer Edward Ward and his engineer went to lonely Bishop Rock Lighthouse for a three-minute broadcast, were marooned by high seas for 27 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 3, 1947 | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Behind reinforced concrete walls in the Dunbar Geophysical Laboratory. Professor Bridgman has duplicated pressures existing 200 miles below the earth's surface, forces, however, that are minute in comparison with those existing at the center of the earth. Under such conditions, solid rock becomes highly plastic and considerably more dense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Physicists of College Seek Subterranean Radioactive Source | 1/30/1947 | See Source »

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