Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...returning lettermen, headed by captain Jim Shue, give Munro a solid nucleus of experience from which to build, but the coach expects that several gaps in his starting lineup will be plugged by sophomores when the team opens against Tufts next Wednesday...
Harvard's actors are now due for official acceptance, after several years of successful work. The rugged individualists who built up local theatre will soon get together in a solid and stolid building where they can continue that odd mixture of escapism and exhibitionism...
...Alsops, Roscoe Drummond, David Lawrence. Under Brownie Reid, the Trib has opened a Moscow bureau (cost: $75,000 a year), staffed by able B.J. Cutler. Under longtime Associated Press Correspondent Don (The FBI Story) Whitehead, its Washington bureau in the past two years has turned in many a solid reporting job, such as the series last year by Tom Lambert and Robert S. Bird on the inefficiency of military aircraft procurement policies...
...principle of the Army's Greenland Research Program, with which Philippe has been working since 1953, is to use what it finds on the icecap. What it finds is snow, which gradually turns into solid ice about 15 ft. below the surface. Treated properly, both snow and ice are useful structural materials, easy to excavate and excellent insulators. They melt when exposed to heat, and deform slowly from their own weight, but the engineers have learned to minimize these failings...
...throwing out the SEC suit, Judge Wilkin may have helped to melt some of the solid opposition to variable annuities in most states. Only Arkansas, West Virginia, Kentucky and the District of Columbia have so far licensed home-based companies to sell the policies. With the precedent of a court decision, state insurance commissioners may well regard the variable annuity with a kindlier eye. Meanwhile, the two victorious District of Columbia companies, Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co. and Equity Annuity Life Insurance Co., plan to step up their selling campaigns...