Word: solider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...points, including the biggest single day's drop since July 26, 1934. Market observers saw in this no mere repetition of the milder reaction in April 1936, with which it had a curious day by day parallel. At week's end as stock prices leveled off on solid ground an air of ingenuous satisfaction was all too plain in Washington. Mr. Roosevelt had apparently done a good job of deflation by suggestion, and the behavior of London banks in restricting credit on American securities gave reason to believe that the British Government understood its cues...
...picked the salesman's brains, Bogen froze him out. Thanks to Babushkin's ability and Bogen's shrewdness, the money rolled in. Meantime Bogen's mother began to worry about him, tried to settle him down by making a match with a solid, sensible Jewish girl. Bogen saw through her schemes, but there was something about Ruthie he could not help admiring. If he had not met Actress Martha about that time, he might even have married Ruthie...
Coach Fred Mitchell's ace hurler, Ed Ingalls, kept the opposition's 13 hits well scattered with the exception of the disastrous fourth inning, when St. John's capitalized on four solid blows and two errors to chalk up six runs...
Plenty of sound, solid flesh is what ample Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands thinks should be on Crown Princess Juliana. From this opinion many a prospective royal suitor of past years differed and so did the jolly Princess, who used to make wry jokes about the thickness of her calves (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935). Last week portly matrons of The Hague dithered as the Crown Princess returned from her three-month honeymoon radiant and 23 lb. lighter. She and slim, sporting Prince Consort "Benno." who knows his way around Europe's swank pleasure spots, were said on their honeymoon...
...would substitute for the two-party system which has led to such corruption here, Mr. Seasongood replied: "I do not disapprove of the two-party system in America, but rather I favor its being conducted as in England where the merit system has a more independent and more solid footing. This situation can be changed only by recognizing it. The matter is not hopeless. The main problem is that the people be gotten out of a defeatist attitude...