Word: solider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Solid backlogs of the editorial staff are three invaluable Lorimer legacies. Oldest in point of service is the A. W. Neall whose name for years has held the No. 2 place in the Post's masthead. Few readers know that she is a woman. Adelaide Neall, fresh out of Bryn Mawr, got into the organization by picking Graeme up when he fell off his pony at a Lorimer garden party in 1909. She handles the magazine's poetry, contacts, encourages, and makes story suggestions to most of the Post's women writers, a few men like...
...little formal preparation for his task. He had grown up in a provincial village in the north of France, studied at the University of Lille, written a religious volume that was placed on the Index, a biography of the Bronte sisters that won him a small but solid transatlantic reputation...
...emptiest. Furniture sales were 30% less than last year. But indices, being statistical compilations of past events, are always a bit behind the times. More intangible but more up-to-date indications last week seemed to point in the other direction. The New York stockmarket completed ten days of solid gain with Dow-Jones industrial averages reaching 128. Moody's commodity price index was up from 144.6 on November 24 to 149.2 last week with industry buying heavily for the first time in months. And Bernard E. (''Sell 'em Ben") Smith, most famed of Wall Street...
Otto Schniebs is a solid little Bavarian, who has probably done more for the promotion of skiing in the U. S. than any other person. Until last year he was ski coach at Dartmouth College, where he turned out six championship teams in six years. His Dartmouth pupils, all very fond of him, constantly baited him just to hear him reply in his terrific guttural accent. A few years ago a pupil asked him what to do if, on a downhill run, he should suddenly rush upon a spot studded with rocks and trees. Replied astute Otto Schniebs...
...soil mechanics. This work is under the direction of Professor Arthur Casagrande. The use of earth, either for construction purposes or as foundations for carrying structures, is as old as human civilization itself. For centuries builders have witnessed gradual or sudden subsidences of their structures, when not built on solid rock, sometimes with disastrous consequences. It is a perplexing fact that this tremendous amount of human experience did not crystallize into a scientific approach to the mechanics of soils until about fifteen years...