Word: solider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Repeating his accusation that Mussolini had told Britain she must enter negotiations "now or never," Eden continued. "Is it to be 'an agreement, when you can get it, negotiated on a solid basis' or is it to be 'an agreement, if you can get it, regardless of the basis...
...near Bridgeport, broke through the ice and drowned. The tragedy made a doubly strong impression on Bessie Pastor because she did a lot of skating herself. Then & there she resolved that she would some day create a safe kind of synthetic ice-not artificially frozen water, but some other solid compound that would offer a skater a smooth gliding surface. It might have other advantages over natural ice, but in Bessie Pastor's mind its primary quality would be safety...
...From the solid shoulders of ruddy, jovial Sportsman John Grenville Bates the responsibility of picking best in snow slid like water from a spaniel's back. Against one of the same sturdy shoulders a gun butt is often set, for John Bates can spare enough time from his Wall Street brokerage business (Taylor, Bates & Co.) to hunt woodcock, grouse, pheasant at the ancient Blooming Grove Hunting and Fishing Club in Pike County, Pa., to shoot in South Carolina and the Florida fiats. He finds time also to be President of Manhattan's Leash Club, of the Morris County...
Then came Depression, the upsurge of radio, the decline of road earnings. Cain's business dwindled. In 1933 its storage space shrank from five solid floors to a ground floor & basement. From storing sets it descended to clumping & burning them-$30 a truckload for the ride, $4 for the bonfire. Presently Cain's took to burning unclaimed junk at its own expense. Finally, on the last day of 1937, it folded secretly. Patsy Cain kept mum about it for six weeks, hoping for a saving miracle. Said he last week: ''I got out without being exactly...
Most substances when solid or frozen sink in their own liquids, by ice floats, because liquid water is denser than it is when frozen. Harvard experiments have now shown that water follows the general law, but for some reason not yet known, does it at a different pressure...