Word: solider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Likening the crust of the earth to a wrinkled layer of solid paraffin floating on an interior of melted paraffin, Reginald A. Daly, Sturgis Professor of Geology, discussed the roots of volcanoes before the American Geophysical Union in Washington Saturday...
...season opened the veteran Paul Doyle jumped into an early lead for the catcher position as Bob Fulton, Yardling backstop of a year ago, slumped badly at the plate. Lately Fulton has improved greatly and in two appearances at the plate got a walk and a solid basehit. A natural receiver, Fulton is now slated to break into the starting lineup...
...sound that is music to a bowler's ears-the clean, choral crash that means a strike. Eight, nine, ten times in succession. Aware that something momentous was happening, excited crowds began to jam behind his alley, but Bowler Blazek refused to be ruffled. Again he rolled a solid pocket smash. Taking his stance for his last and crucial shot, Mike Blazek just perceptibly faltered. His ball crossed the head pin for a "Brooklyn"' hit.* The No. 5 pin wobbled, teetered, finally fell. The crowd yelled. Mike Blazek had done what only four bowlers in the 38-year...
...happy-go-lucky fellow who finds "a power of music" in everything from rubber bands to squeaking shoes, but especially in jugs. His powerful ambition is to be a showboat musician. Mrs. Penny's ambition, more powerful than Willow Joe's, is to get a home on solid ground and be respectable. So Willow Joe grits his teeth and builds cabins, which floods always wash away. But when hard times come, Mrs. Penny lets him go to work on a dilapidated showboat...
State. As the master of a solid bloc of faithful votes. Tom Pendergast has long been the No. 1 Democrat of his State. But in 1932 St. Louis' Bennett Champ Clark went to the Senate without his help and Boss Pendergast has since had to sign a working agreement to claim patronage only in the western half of the State. The truce has lately been strained, to the dis pleasure of Tom Pendergast. First strain came when young Maurice Milligan, whose Brother Jacob was defeated by Pendergast's Harry Truman for the Senate, was appointed U. S. Attorney...