Word: solidated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the season, Penn looked like a solid bet to win the Ivy title. The Quakers had two brilliant guards in Jeff Neuman and Stan Pawlak, who between them have averaged 43 points per game this season. And Penn's front line averaged an imposing...
Thirty-three per cent of the pollees voted qualified approval, and a solid majority--61 per cent -- voted a no holds-barred...
...Amorphous & Far-Reaching." To Justice John Harlan, the last part of Douglas' argument was dubious. "This decision is more the product of human impulses, which I fully share, than of solid constitutional thinking," he said in dissent. He argued that the "public function" of privately established schools and privately established parks is clearly similar. If the majority thought that its decision left "unaffected the traditional view that the 14th Amendment does not compel private schools to adapt their admission policies to its requirements," said Harlan, he did not agree. He found it difficult "to avoid the conclusion that this...
...Germany; of a heart attack; in San Antonio. A sober professional who in 1905 flunked out of West Point (for failing geometry), then climbed from buck private to four-star general, Hodges had little of the personal flair of a Patton or a Montgomery; but he was a solid tactician whose 450,000-man force liberated Paris, fought its way out of the bitter Battle of the Bulge and smashed the Nazis' Siegfried Line...
...Bolsheviks is solid biography which frequently benefits from its pretensions to history of a broader scope. Ulam's discussions of Lenin's youth and the Party in exile are exhaustive, and his treatment of the 1917 revolutions is both thorough and fair-minded. In discussing the February revolution, for example, after giving two pages of "the bare facts," Ulam asks, "What did really happen?" He then summarizes the liberal, non-Bolshevik Socialist, monarchist, Trotskyite, and Leninist positions before adding his own interpretation. Equally impressive are his analyses of Lenin as the ruler of a state. Here he gives a very...