Word: solider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon read his new assistant's words he frowned instantly and sent for their author. Secretary Mellon kept Assistant-Secretary Lowman closeted for a solid hour, presumaby explaining that discretion is the better part of ardor...
...Criticism. U. S. businessmen in France have hitherto been trading on a 60% average tariff basis. All were convinced that the same arrangement would be carried on under the new law. Why, no one could say. But U. S. businessmen were solid and emphatic in declaring that the least the French could have done was to continue the old arrangement pending the conclusion of the projected commercial pact between the two countries...
Alluring reports of various concerns picture the passenger stepping into a deeply upholstered cabin; sailing smoothly, swiftly above the realms of way stations; ordering luncheon from a white-coated and obsequious steward. Actual facts from the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America indicate'that the solid citizen is skeptical of airways. Last year only 7,651 citizens paid for tickets on U. S. flying trains. At least two companies, lacking passengers, evaporated. Flying taxicabs...
...England, a plot of ground was discovered in London near Fleet Street, that had never been built on. Diggers unearthed "15 feet of solid history," relics dating from the Paleolithic period (with a gap from Saxon times to the 13th Century) to the present. ¶Workmen digging for foundations for the new Bank of England building turned up the leather soles of Roman women's shoes. Newspaper stories were written to the effect that styles have changed little...
...sacked Panama in 1671. All they found was a few pounds of assorted jewelry, worth perhaps $3,000. So they proceeded inland to the Mayan ruins of Cocle. There they found acres of graves. From one grave they took a skeleton in copper armor plated with gold; with solid gold breastplates...