rockbound
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The excitement of the stock flurry was mild compared to some that the rockbound, conservative Bank of New York has had since it was founded by Alexander Hamilton.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said the rockbound National Association of Manufacturers' Morris Sayre: "We are now on our way to taking the cap off the high cost of living."
From Time Magazine Archive
The words are supposed to remind the 1,150 students of their school's rockbound commitment to morality, probity and restraint.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus he began to reveal more and more about the rockbound New England upbringing which had made him so rigidly "moral" that he was hardly human.
From Time Magazine Archive
John Hiram Gilbreth died in 1871, leaving his three-year-old son, two older daughters, and a stern and rockbound widow.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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