Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Turkey's head man, solid, stolid President Celal Bayar, came to the U.S. He shook the proper hands, placed the proper wreaths on the proper tombs, beamed the proper smiles and said the proper words to Congress, diplomats and the press. His mission had no specific goal beyond an expression of friendship-no protests to make, no new loans or grants to ask-all in all, a colorless performance by the standards to which Americans have become accustomed...
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 12: English 165 offers an opportunity to learn careful land practical literary criticism through the reading of poems, novels, and dramas. The course in solid, and only those thoroughly awake by non should go to Burr A at this hour...
...because of the promoters' fear of falling gate receipts would be telecast. First-run movies would supplement the antiques now filling the screens; opera and ballet, which seldom come into the living room, could be telecast. Pay-as-you-see could put the Metropolitan Opera on a solid financial basis. And pay-as-you-see, instead of keeping audiences away from such events, might stimulate as much interest in them as radio did in symphony orchestras...
Esther Forbes, daughter of a pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts clan, one of whose 17th-century members died in jail while awaiting trial for witchcraft. There is little witchcraft, unfortunately, in Author Forbes's latest novel, Rainbow on the Road, and the plot is frugal even by Yankee standards. A solid fog of research muffles her characters, but whenever it lifts for a page or two, the sights and sounds of the New England countryside around 1830 come through in a kind of pastoral tone poem...
Gulf's strike was of prime importance for oil-poor Italy. Domestic production is only about 1,900 bbls. a day, and the country uses nearly 20 times that much, which must be imported at a cost of about $200 million a year. Now Italy has solid hopes of cutting its expensive imports by at least 25%. Geologists report that there is a good-size oilfield under the hills near Ragusa, and estimate an eventual yield of 10,000 bbls...