Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They were solid citizens. Many were farmers; they lived and died in the big house for 100 years. Then about 1800 Priscilla Shallcross married Samuel Roberts at Abington Meeting House, and the house and its surrounding acres were passed on to their descendants. The Roberts tribe enlarged the place until it boasted 19 rooms and a 110-ft. porch, and they, in turn, tilled the farm for 120 years...
With its ancient hand-carved beams, wide pegged floors,and hand-forged hinges, the house stayed solid and eminently habitable. But the city of Philadelphia, once so distant, finally grew out to the Shall-cross-Roberts house; the three acres remaining of the farm were almost surrounded by new row houses. The Robertses stubbornly refused to sell. Last year the itch for modernity got the better of grandson William I. Roberts III - he bought a new house in Levittown, Pa. and moved out with his son William I. Roberts IV. The old place seemed empty. Last week Owner Roberts...
...apparent smoothness may be an illusion. Dr. Wilkins believes that the moon's surface is solid, not covered with dust, but he fears that it may be cluttered with small, sharp-edged ridges. Through the early telescopes, the ridges could not be seen, but as telescopes have improved, more and more of them have appeared. There is a good chance that even the smoothest-looking parts of the moon may be cut-up badlands. Dr. Wilkins suggests that moon voyagers make no advance decisions about landing sites. Their spaceship had better approach with caution, like a crippled airplane picking...
...concert opened with Cimarosa Oboc Concerto. Robert Freemen played it with a sublety of phrasing and sweetness of tone of the highest order. The Orchestra, whose playing throughout the evening was solid, failed occasionally to match his sensitivity...
This weekend's games should give a solid indication. Middlebury, although no pushover, will probably be no serious threat, and the B.L.C. has already dropped two practice games to the Crimson. Hence the games will be most interesting from the standpoint of the team's midfield performance,and if they live up to expectations, the team will be in contention for the title again...