Word: solider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...here yesterday when this vicinity was the scone of an earthquake 36 hours after Dr. R. A. Daly of the Geology Department delivered a lecture at Lowell Institute on earthquakes and the effect a quake would have in Boston. Dr. Daly stated in his speech that owing to the solid formation of the earth here that a shock would cause little destruction...
...hammer of solid gold, its haft of carved ivory, studded with rubies, emeralds, aquamarines, lapis lazuli and engraved with solemn mottoes; a trowel, also of gold, also studded and graven; in a leather case, embossed and inlaid with gold and gems?these gifts of the episcopacy of the world were placed in the hands of Pope Pius XI. Pope Pius was pleased, elated...
...made Leviathan steamed into Quarantine, 6 days and 14 hours out from Cherbourg. The timorous passengers smiled and rolled across the solid earth upon their sea legs. The timid questioned whether ever again they would go to sea, questioned whether the sea were conquerable, asked in their hearts whether some day or other some such man-made Leviathan might not succumb to the demons of the ancient deep. Indeed, it would be a serious question for the Shipping Board, or any other shipping agency, if one of its great ships should ever sink before the onslaught of the storm...
...circumstances are favorable to a once-for-all decision. It is a time of peace when wartime passions are absent. It is a time of comparative prosperity when the economic and political structure seems most solid. But the same conservative spirit which actuated the imprisonment of socialists during the war is at work, and the case will test the court's ability to withstand the pervasive dangers of class spirit and to formulate a conception of the freedom of speech under which the courts can protect the rights of minority opinion...
Thanksgiving Day in the Missouri Valley was punctuated by a loud, solid thump administered by Missouri to Kansas. The Missouri backfield selected the third period for two plunging touchdowns. In the fourth period, Kansas passes soared menacingly but were cut down with precision. The score, Missouri 14, Kansas 0, left Nebraska no room for argument with Missouri over the Valley title...