Word: solid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...aircraft artillery, and part of the trench artillery, in addition to the strictly coast defense guns. The course provides for two hours of physical training per week, which may take the form of athletics. A minimum of three hours a week of theoretical instruction is required, including plane and solid geometry, place and spherical trigonometry, college algebra, use of slide rule, physics, (electricity, optics, statical and dynamic mechanics, physical laboratory work, theory of errors, and thermo-dynamics), American history, English, plane surveying, gunnery, and two hours per week of military instruction during the first two years. All these courses, except...
Advanced algebra, solid geometry, and trigonometry were transferred from the list of required to the group of elective studies for admission to the Sheffield Scientific School, and provision was made by the college faculty for granting a college degree without Latin...
...world is in flux. In this crucial hour--this plastic stage of civilization--we can mould America into a solid and enduring permanency of true character; or we can let it be misshapen and distorted until like some great evil full of ugliness it becomes "set" and adamantine for wrong...
...solid bottom rock of the plan of the League of Peace is, therefore, the fact that though an association of moderately democratic countries has overcome the militaristic combine which tried to make itself the dominant power in the world, peace will leave the conquered countries in ruins, unless the solid, stable part of the world unites to set it in order and to give it the opportunity to grow into strength. A combination of nations has been found absolutely necessary to fight the war; without some combination of nations, there will be another war to fight before many years...
...difficulty. It is foolish to expect industry, however willing it may be, to create jobs arbitrarily out of pure patriotism. A few thousand can be taken care of in this way, but the majority of the surplus labor can only be absorbed through increased production founded upon the solid basis of increased demand for products. The real remedy to this pressing situation must come through the stop-page of the streams of labor which are constantly adding their volumes to the idle army already tramping the streets in search of work...