Word: solider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between conferences, calls and bouts with his two dictaphones, he gets an hour's ride or walk, bolts tea and sandwiches from a solid silver plate, naps...
...explanation for this whimsey was a solid fact. The King of England had put through a call to Lord Beaverbrook in Manhattan asking him to return and continue to advise His Majesty. Hurrying through the back door of Buckingham Palace, Beaverbrook was closeted with Edward for hours over endless Scotch-and-sodas. But it was then too late. The abdication had been agreed upon...
...This year's team," said Neufeld, "is more solid and has more depth than that of last year, but it is not very secure about half the list. Graduation last year took from us many of the best men we have ever worked with in the College. They left not a few difficult positions to be filled on the Varsity...
...hundreds of millions, and the huge loss which is shown on the books in the annual Treasurer's Report to the Overseers may cause uninformed persons undue alarm. However, the simple facts, when divorced from their monetary terminology, reveal that Harvard, despite this book loss, is actually as financially solid as it has been in the past. In brief, some millions of dollars were added to the book valuation of the University shortly after the late-lamented boom. Its investments were apparently worth more, so Harvard decided to value them at an increased figure on its books. Now changing business...
That teaching and research are not necessarily antagonistic was impressively demonstrated by the life and career of Professor Edwin Herbert Hall. While exhibiting in neither field the flashy brilliance which attracts the plaudits of the mob, he nevertheless presented a solid balance of both which could well be set up as a high goal by the younger teachers and instructors of today...