Word: solidated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spaniards spent hundreds of millions to fortify Cartagena. Miles of tunnels, ventilated by shafts driven 100 feet through solid rock, served Fort San Felipe's twelve gun emplacements (one named after each apostle). A stone barrier, thrust across one of the two harbor entrances, forced men-of-war into a narrow passage raked by Spanish guns. Cartagena knew what it was to be sacked (e.g., by Drake in 1585, and the French in 1544 and 1697), but in 1741, the fortifications paid off: the Spanish routed a 28,000-man, 186-vessel British fleet thrown at them by Admiral...
...Five solid triumphs are the major reason for the high opinion people have of the Ithaca quintet. Included among the team's victims are Rochester, Niagara, Yale, Colgate and Vermont, while Coach Earl Brown's strong Canisius club handed a ten-point defeat to the squad last Saturday. The Big Red's 21-point crushing defeat of Yale places Cornell temporarily in first place in the Ivy League alongside Pennsylvania, also a victor over the Elis...
...With two solid victories tucked under their belt, the Freshman pucksters will be chasing their third straight when they face off with a highly rated, weather-blessed Framingham High team this afternoon on the opponents home...
Shaken Oysters. Dr. Victor L. Loosanoff, biologist of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, was also concerned with survival. He froze live oysters solid, kept them frozen ten months, thawed them out happy and healthy. But if he shook them while frozen, they thawed out dead. A frozen oyster, said Dr. Loosanoff, is mostly ice. Shaking breaks...
Probably half the matter in the "home" or Milky Way galaxy is not in its stars at all but in tiny solid grains or separate atoms. This is what stars are formed from. According to Dr. H. C. van de Hulst from Utrecht, The Netherlands, the average cosmic particle is about one hundred thousandth of a centimeter in radius and deadly cold, only a few degrees above absolute zero ( -459.72°F.). When wandering atoms strike such particles, they freeze and stick tight...