Word: solider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight hours earlier, it had been fed by three cords of oak, 500 lb. of charcoal. When flames flickered over the glowing coals and a pyrometer recorded the heat at 1,220° F., light-footed Kuda Bux took three long hoppity steps through one pit, hopped out on solid ground. Later he tried it again, again achieved only half of what Fictioneer McNamee reported...
...last week Third Termites bored busily in the solid wooden pillars of U. S. politics. Scripps-Howard's cartoonist, Harold Talburt, caught the spirit of it in a drawing of Harry Hopkins and Harold Ickes, two urchins standing on the magic table of Franklin the Great, hoisting a third-term rabbit out of the absent wizard...
...held that Dr. Peabody was at fault in merely stopping the debate and not correcting the conditions in the school which made such an attitude possible. In all fairness to the reputation of the educator it should be pointed out that he has to handle a pretty solid phalanx of problem children.* The home influence is very bad in the case of many Groton boys. The lads are largely overnourished, overclad and burdened with the handicap of both town and country houses...
That it pays to be a good neighbor was indicated last week by solid statistics. Partly as a result of neighborliness, largely because of the reciprocal trade treaties of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, U. S. exports to Latin America as a whole increased last year from 40% to 90% in value. Those pessimists who have believed that the totalitarian European states were gaining political and economic influence south of the Rio Grande were surprised to hear that in the same period Nazi Germany's trade increased less than 30%, Fascist Italy...
...Products Corp. in 1919. In 1923 Rube Ellis was put in charge of its three brands-English Ovals, Oxford Blues and Cambridge-the first a blend and the others Turkish. Mr. Ellis promptly launched Marlboro, a 20? cigaret which, with the benefit of an ivory tip, has sold a solid 500,000,000 a year since. Then he lured McKitterick back from a seven-year vacation in Europe and the two quietly began buying Philip Morris stock. In 1931 they had control, got into the 10? field with a cigaret called Paul Jones. But they found themselves making little from...