Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dixon-Yates contract and its public v. private power issue landed on the floor of the House of Representatives last week and, after a noisy and bitter debate, bounced out again with an unexpectedly solid victory for President Eisenhower and for private enterprise...
...politicians gave tongue on the issue, but City Council Candidate Frank Gold came out flatly for dogs and against leashes. "I am not afraid," said Gold boldly. At the election he was defeated, and the leash law was passed by a solid majority, 55,013 to 39,917. Last week, adding impost to injury, the Denver Health Department proposed a tax on pet food to pay for the law's enforcement. Mayor Quigg Newton quickly killed the idea, but bristling dog owners held a protest meeting to plan repeal of the leash law at the August city election...
Staring & Transforming. The old man started going farther, faster, half a century ago. Two of his best works at the Louvre exhibition were done in 1906, soon after he hit Paris. One was a portrait of Gertrude Stein (borrowed from Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum) that made her look solid as a hillside, a Mother Earth with brains. The other, a self-portrait from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, presented the youthful Picasso as a stocky, strong boy staring intently at nothing in particular. Both pictures demonstrated his genius for transforming subject matter into shapes and colors...
...himself five days to convert Paris. He has four left to fix his microphones." Paris Presse said Billy was "as well organized as a businessman, as diplomatic as a Jesuit and apparently as pacific as a field of wheat." Only the Communist daily L'Humanité threw a solid brickbat: it felt sure that Billy was a tool of millionaires "employed in the crusade against socialism...
Cutter Laboratories, born in the backroom of the late Edward Cutter's Fresno, Calif, pharmacy in 1897, is the second oldest pharmaceutical house in the country under continuous ownership and management (the oldest: Parke, Davis & Co.), and has a solid professional reputation. It pioneered commercial production of serum albumin (for shock and kidney infections), gamma globulin (the first anti-polio serum), triple vaccine (against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus), the Semple Rabies Vaccine (an improvement on the old Pasteur formula), and is the exclusive U.S. marketer of fibrinogen (which helps to clot blood) and bubonic plague vaccine...