Word: solider
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...viewed as though through a crystal. His images, especially in "Bird Cloud" (1926), appear refracted. Rather than showing various perspectives at once as the Cubists attempted to do, Feininger merely wanted to accentuate and flatten light planes, exaggerating them like a caricaturist would and rendering each with a different solid block of color before reassembling the pieces...
Russell's personal history endows her with a solid knowledge of and a good feel for Cambridge, its residents and their history. Her deceased husband, Leonard, previously served as mayor. Since his death in 1985, she has served on the City Council, pushing for such issues delimiting the hiring practices of the schools and the police department to city residents. Now, Russell says, it's her turn to be mayor. We believe the mayor of Cambridge should provide higher vision than provincial ambition...
...Crimson is coming off a solid season in which it finished 4-2 in the Ivy League (8-5 overall), good enough for third place behind co-champions Princeton and Brown. Those same two teams figure to be tough this year, with the Tigers ranked No. 3 in the nation and the Bears No. 9. Harvard itself is ranked No. 18, two positions below another league rival, Cornell...
...experience with a top manufacturer of nuclear components. At Northeast, he started in the division that oversees the utility's 15 fossil-fuel plants, then moved to the nuclear group, specializing in performance and reliability. Eric DeBarba, Northeast's vice president of technical services, describes him as a solid engineer. "Nobody here ever questioned his honesty or motives," DeBarba says...
...EMPLOYMENT AND WRONGFUL-termination lawyer, Hadley has made a career of representing whistle blowers, many of them from Millstone. For 10 years he has also worked with Stephen Comley and We the People. Comley, a Massachusetts nursing-home operator, is a classic New England character, solid and brusque. He founded We the People in 1986 when he realized the evacuation plans for Seabrook Station, a plant 12 miles from his nursing home, included doses of iodine for those too old and frail to evacuate...