Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rising early to branch and bud; despite flurries of wintry weather, there had already been days of sun in the coldest states, when gutters tinkled musically to streams from melting drifts. Many Vermont farmers had buckets out in their maple-sugar groves. Though Lake Erie is normally frozen solid far into March, the Nicholson Transit Co. freighter James Watt made a trial run from Detroit to Toledo last week, and found only one insignificant patch of drifting...
...similar win over Yale this Saturday will put the sextet back into solid contention for the NCAA Colorado tournament, and may give Harvard a Pentagonal lead...
...four hours each, or less. Accordingly, your statement about "five hour wonders" has no application here, Indeed, a man who needs five hours on one of these papers to achieve a B is scarcely to be regarded as a bull artist, but as a conscientious plodder. Five hours of solid work would also go a long way toward completion of one of the 1,000 word papers in certain other courses which require no research. Longer papers would take proportionately longer. Some of the longest might require most of a student's time for a number of days...
...Perchance Mr. [Beverley] Baxter might benefit from a bicycle trip through the good, solid American countryside. There he might find some who would be in a homey, talkative mood, thus imparting to him yet another side of U.S. life ... If it's conversation he wants, any housewife over here could bring him down to earth in nothing flat. He'd find that a good portion of us are college graduates, as are our husbands. We're usually a family of four with the usual pets. We do our own housework, worry about mortgage payments, food budgets...
...most important single fact is that, after 26 cabinet changes in seven years, Greece has a government with a solid enough majority (239 out of 300 seats) to avoid compromising its program. Said Papagos: "We will be here for the next four years, just like my friend President General Eisenhower. There will be no more changing of governments every six months. We have a clear plan for Greece, and we will carry it through...