Word: solider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oberlin laboratory more than a year before, discovered the electrolytic extraction process which made possible the commercial refinement of aluminum. As a result, Oberlin received $9,000,000, one third of Chemist Hall's estate, besides a statue of him as a young man, in glowing solid aluminum...
Born 57 years ago in Havre of a solid, bourgeois family, he became a clerk in his father's importing house, started to paint as a hobby about 1895. Five years later he went to Paris to make art his profession, stuck to conservative Beaux Arts training until the summer of 1905 when he saw his first picture by Henri Matisse. "Confronted by that picture," said Raoul Dufy, "I understood all the new reason for painting...
...engineers decided to try an old trick invented in Prussia but never before used in U. S. dam construction: freezing the front of the slide. They ran six miles of pipe into the clay, pumped in brine cooled by two big refrigerating machines, bought secondhand. The clay froze solid; the slide stopped. Cost...
...over like slow porpoises in a sea of oil, contemplatively intoned their musical incantations." But most of Virginia Woolf's descriptions are pictures: "It was March and the wind was blowing. . . . With one blast it blew out color-even a Rembrandt in the National Gallery, even a solid ruby in a Bond Street window: one blast and they were gone ... it paled every window; drove old gentlemen further and further into the leather smelling recesses of clubs; and old ladies to sit eyeless, leather cheeked, joyless among the tassels and antimacassars of their bedrooms and kitchens. Triumphing...
...Exchange affairs, took an active hand in negotiating the merger that really made Toronto a miners' mart, played a big part in planning the new building to house it. At first he was disturbed by Architect S. H. Maw's modernism, for Broker Housser is rated a Solid Citizen with a wife, daughter and grown son, pride in his golf, a fondness for fishing and a natural leaning toward conservatism. The executive offices in his new building are period (Queen Anne and Georgian), but the president's office does have a highly functional bar adjoining. At home...