Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little Rock...
...acquired in his 25 years in the U. S. Senate. Last week Senator Ashurst had a characteristically involved witticism to deliver. Said he: "In times of classical antiquity there were two things unpredictable: the way of a man with a maid, and the way of an eagle on a rock (which way it will fly)." The last decade, according to Senator Ashurst, has added another equally profound human uncertainty: "What will Congress...
Harvard won this game 9-0. Stopped from gaining along the ground by a rock-ribbed Yale defense they took to the air. Charlie Buell hoisted a field goal in the first period, and another in the last. Captain Arne Horween contributed his bit by kicking a goal also in the fourth...
...these cases come before the Court in 1936, they would have been judged by four rock-ribbed conservatives, three equally dependable liberals-with Chief Justice Hughes and Justice Roberts unpredictably on the fence. Currently the known balance is 4-to-3 on the other side, for while Mr. Roosevelt was not able to place an additional member in the court for each one over 70-the total would have been six-nevertheless, when the smoke of battle cleared away, Mr. Roosevelt's formal defeat had been accompanied by the retirement of arch-conservative Mr. Justice Van Devanter...
...winning fight in Cheyenne had not kept both of Publisher McCraken's hands busy. Between 1927 and 1932 he had bought and made daily tabloids of the weekly Newcastle News-Letters and Rock Springs Rocket. These followed the pattern of the Eagle: breezy style, plenty of comics, big, black type and Democratic politics. To keep his papers on their toes, Publisher McCraken made each local manager a part owner...