Word: solidated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took a long time to investigate the call. The police chopped away the Collyers' bolted front door, and were confronted by a solid mass of newspapers, cartons, old iron, broken furniture. Finally a patrolman went up a ladder, opened a shutter, swept his flashlight into a cavelike burrow. Homer was sitting on the floor. He was naked except for a thin and tattered bathrobe, his long white hair hung down to his shoulders, and his hand rested near a shriveled apple. He had been dead for some hours...
After that, the police tried to find Langley. At first they thought he was probably hiding in the house. The building was packed almost solid from top to bottom with incredible masses of junk, pierced by winding tunnels. As they cleared passageways the police found five pianos, a library containing thousands of books on law and engineering, ancient toys, old bicycles with rotting tires, obscene photographs, dressmaker's dummies, heaps of coal, and ton after ton of newspapers-the fruit of three decades of hoarding...
...Fast but Solid. The Soviet position was that Russia would not agree to Germany's economic unification unless Russia were assured German reparations from current German production. The French said that they would not agree to anything, either, unless they were assured coal from the Ruhr. This got George Marshall good & mad. He charged into the skirmish more fiercely than at any time since he came to Moscow...
...night, nervous irregulars fired sporadically. And almost everyone furtively read typewritten transcripts of the "Voice of Victory"-clandestine radio broadcasts of war news, either real or imagined. In what they read last week there were only a few solid facts...
Father Henry C. Wallace, a solid, competent editor and a good Secretary of Agriculture (he helped blow the lid off the Teapot Dome scandal), would test the talents of a Boswell. It is Grandfather (Uncle Henry) Wallace who steals the show. First a rebellious Presbyterian minister, later a farmer and outspoken farm-paper editor, Uncle Henry passed on his name but none of his sharp wit and little of his peppery common sense and talent for writing...