Word: solider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul Hymans, Adolf Max Pechael and Albert Deueze, all Liberals, called upon M. Theunis, Catholic Party, promised him Liberal support if he would consent to form a new cabinet. As this would give his ministry a solid majority in the Chamber, M. Theunis informed the King that he would head a new government...
...great many of my old friends saying that the Scottish Sabbath was a burden. I would like to see a state of society where every man and woman preferred the old Scotch Sabbath to the modern French one, because in that state of society you would have fine, solid, eternal foundations of character and self-command...
...swear like pirates because their vocabularies are so limited that they have no other means of expression". After all, this reflection on one's vocabulary is only a sly shot at the college author fair target but there are certainly occasions, which Dr. Fitch neglects, on which anything but solid, sturdy. Anglo-Saxon profanity would be inappropriate and since these occasions are by no means rare in college days, proficiency in the art should be a point of pride. It is a poor compliment to the college man that his best awarding should be likened to the rude, uneducated...
...cast their votes either for or against Poincaré's measures. In most cases this abstention is a protest against Poincaré's foreign policy or against his abuse of the parliamentary system. Actually Premier Poincaré's position in the Chamber is not at all solid and an imminent Government defeat is neither improbable nor impossible...
What will be needed for this will be something more solid than can be built of "planks", something concrete and lasting. And what is needed now as preparation is a constructive plan, a complete scaffold, based on the foundations of actuality and rising strongly to the requisite height, lofty though that must...