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Word: rocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even for us, this is difficult, for though we can train men to become technically proficient on ice and rock, we cannot train expert mountaineers in the relatively easy mountain ranges of the East. And to be a good leader, a man must be an expert climber with at least one full season's experience in high mountain areas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mountaineering Club Aids National Defense Effort | 8/28/1942 | See Source »

...trips of the summer was last Sunday's ascent of the Whitney-Gilman route on Cannon Mountain by several members of the club. First pioneered by a Harvard Math professor and member of the club back in 1930, the seven-hundred foot vertical buttress is usually considered the finest rock-climb in New England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mountaineering Club Aids National Defense Effort | 8/28/1942 | See Source »

...Drowning is slowest, most effective, most difficult. Mud and water forced down the well shaft under great pressure clog the subterranean oil channels, back the oil right into the rock formations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Wreck an Oil Well | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...Little Rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1942 | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...Rock Climb in the Blue Hills: under the auspices of the Harvard Outing Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer School Calendar | 8/14/1942 | See Source »

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