Word: solider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acid, the other not. The mixture is melted and the glass is molded or blown to the desired shape. Then it is soaked in dilute nitric acid, which eats away the soluble ingredients, leaving the glass honeycombed with air spaces. Again heat is applied and the glass becomes solid, shrinking 35% in volume...
...Solid rubber tires...
Swing. In small, low-ceiled, table-touching spots where there is hardly room enough to swing a cat, the "cats" swing the room late and loud. Headquarters for swing is Manhattan's sand Street with its solid block of night spots (during speakeasy days, an irate 5 2nd Street householder defensively posted a sign reading "Private House"). On 52nd Street is The Onyx Club, Swing's self-styled "cradle," where Crooner Maxine Sullivan hops things up; The Famous Door, where Trumpeter Louis Prima lays siege to the eardrums; Jack White's 18 Club, which goes...
Significance. The most notable feature of last week's stockmarket upturn was that so far as it rested on solid ground it was based on expectation of Government action. Imminent repeal of taxes on capital gains and undistributed profits entitle stocks to enjoy a modest two or three day rally. But for the first time in nearly a year the market ceased to be a slavish follower of production. Time was when the market presumed to anticipate changing trends in production three to six months in advance. In June 1938 the market anticipated production by only a few weeks...
...notes are not the only weapon the Japanese have been using. Japanese military and naval spokesmen have "predicted" that Japan would soon find it "necessary" to send her marines into the Shanghai International Settlement to stamp out anti-Japanese "terrorism."* Flushed by their small but solid victory at Amoy, the three Western countries put on at Shanghai a joint demonstration of just what resistance Japan would meet in the Settlement should her armed forces try to move...