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Word: solidated (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shot of cold "germs" with their honeymoon, the hospital offered a free ten-day holiday in a cozy, secluded retreat. Others who were taking advantage of the offer: tired businessmen, housewives, students. The hospital has a full house and a waiting list of more than 500, is booked solid for at least six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Love & Sniffles | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...they had been before they separated; but the Pacific shores crumpled the earth's crust ahead of them, like the bows of ships plowing through thin ice. Thus were formed the still growing, earthquaky mountains which ring the Pacific today. When the crumpling broke a hole through the solid crust, hot "magma" burst to the surface, building a volcano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Continents on the Loose | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Behind reinforced concrete walls in the Dunbar Geophysical Laboratory. Professor Bridgman has duplicated pressures existing 200 miles below the earth's surface, forces, however, that are minute in comparison with those existing at the center of the earth. Under such conditions, solid rock becomes highly plastic and considerably more dense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Physicists of College Seek Subterranean Radioactive Source | 1/30/1947 | See Source »

...most enthusiastic presidential commentator by far was ex-Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney. After a short visit to the White House with shaggy-haired Football Coach Jimmy Conzelman, Tunney announced to reporters that the country is in good hands. "I never saw a more solid citizen. His eye is clear and he's just as solid as a wall. His jaw is square and his stomach is as flat as an athlete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Yond Cassius . . . | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...program ended with the truly professional singing of a snappy M.R.A. international mixed chorus. All around me were people smiling pleasantly, and one thought of words like inspired, intent, open-faced, solid, energetic, enthusiastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Confessions at Caux | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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