Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile below, curious tourists and anxious natives watched the climbers through telescopes. For three days they watched them, inching their way like tiny black spiders up a white web. The third evening, the quartet that had started out as two competing teams joined ropes, stood lashed to the rock, 500 ft. from the top, waiting for dawn and the crawl to victory...
...some years has been the leading exporter among the nations of the world. . . . We export, on the average, more than one-third of our total production of leaf tobacco, half of our cotton, half of our phosphate rock and between a fourth and a half of our total production of canned and dried fruits. Among manufactured products, we export from a fourth to a half of our total production of sewing machines, printing and bookbinding machinery, office appliances, agricultural implements and aircraft. One out of ten of all American-made automobiles normally goes abroad. . . . Likewise, substantial quantities of our petroleum...
...Newport, Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's exhibition of 15 pieces of sculpture, ranging from small bronzes to a huge plaster Rock Group turned out to be more popular than a show by 20 contemporary painters which opened at the same time. Aside from a group of abstract studies that local critics defended somewhat uneasily, paintings at the Newport Art Association exhibit included the veteran Edward Hopper's oil Sun on Prospect Street, Charles Burchfield's water color Black Iron, the work of John Marin, Thomas Benton, Reginald Marsh, Henry Yarnum Poor, others as eminent...
...Gloucester, Mass., where for 60 years artists have been painting in remodeled fish houses on Rock Neck Avenue, two rival groups sponsored exhibitions, the Society of Artists holding a spirited, uneven, no-jury show on the second floor of a store building, featuring cheerful pieces by young, rebellious Lawrence Beall Smith and Umberto Romano; the North Shore Art Association, twice as big, and more than twice as dignified, giving its 16th annual show in which Gloucester scenes, fishermen and sailing craft predominated...
...defanged racing snakes who were sent off to a lively start by electrically charged copper wires nailed to the board on which they were placed (in the centre of a circle 500 feet in circumference) ; reaching the circle's edge in 4 min., 55 sec.; at North Little Rock...