Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Solid Advice. In Sydney, Australia, the Rev. Jack Leonard, who is also a ventriloquist, showed up for Sunday school with a wooden dummy on his lap, obliged his youthful parishioners to listen while it delivered a 20-minute sermon...
...Sleek, solid-colored and almost chromeless, the new cars held few surprises-but some bonuses-for Mercedes fans. The lower-priced 180 models ($3,300 to $3,567 in New York) and the luxurious 300 SL Roadster ($10,978) were basically unchanged. But Mercedes' new 220 series of six-cylinder sedans, the most popular in the line, appeared in a sleeker new version, with a redesigned engine that boosts power output to a top of 134 h.p. The medium-priced 220 ($4,767 with fuel injection) has a somewhat lower, slightly streamlined body that keeps the unmistakable Mercedes look...
...Hong Kong -Calcutta -Karachi BOAC route was inevitably a temptation to smugglers. Hong Kong, for example, makes no check of outgoing baggage. And India, with its stable rupee and a middle class that likes to convert its savings into solid-gold jewelry for safekeeping (and dowries), has been the world's best market for contraband gold for centuries...
...world's wealthiest nation is booming at such a solid rate that the very measure of wealth-money-is harder to come by than in many months...
...just one, but two pennant contenders. The Giants, who went to San Francisco a disheveled team of weary veterans and untried rookies, have settled down into a hustling ball club that last week led the Braves by three games and the Dodgers by 2½. The Giants have solid pitching anchored by Sad Sam Jones (15-11), a morose-faced Negro with a crackling curve, and slick Johnny Antonelli (16-6), the pop-off lefty whose feud with newsmen is so bitter that he issues statements only through Manager Bill Rigney (dubbed by the press "John's other voice...