Word: solidest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Color Now. To the FCCommissioners and other nonscientific listeners, the workings of the systems seemed far less complicated than the arguments about their comparative virtues. The solidest single fact is that the CBS system, developed to high perfection by Dr. Peter C. Goldmark, turns out pictures which are bright, crisp, and at least as faithful as most colored movies. Their own special ill is a so-called "color flash." If the viewer looks away suddenly, he sees the picture momentarily in a single color, because of the persistence in the eye of the last one-color picture seen. A color...
...Europe seemed to be coca-cola, jeeps, and the Hollywood movie. They were met with the expectation that they turn out to be a combination of Babbitt and the Lone Ranger, bulging with money and utterly boorish. They discovered that the humble dollars in their wallets represented the solidest value in the world, the item which seemed to be the chief reason for Europe's respect for the U. S. They found themselves the target for postcard salesmen, black marketeers, hotel keepers, and souvenir hawkers all the way from Rotterdam to Barcelona...
...main purpose of the pyramids was to give lasting protection to Pharaohs' mummies, but the slaves who built them must have seen the pyramids as foursquare symbols of tyranny at its solidest and heaviest. By contrast, the plans for Manhattan's U.N. Secretariat called for lightness, elegance-and fragility. The Secretariat's sky-filled, four-acre walls of windows, which might be shattered by a single bomb blast, would symbolize an optimism unknown to tyrants...
...radio talk, and he finds time to cover the big stories (Bikini, the Olympics, Election Night, etc.). But a large sheaf of the copy that pours from Bob Considine's overworked typewriter carries somebody else's byline above his own. At 42, he is one of the solidest, most successful and least anonymous of ghostwriters. His annual income...
...Sainted Sisters (Paramount) are daintily tough Veronica Lake and delicious Joan Caulfield. In flight from the New York police (circa 1895), they stop off for a con girls' holiday in a little town in Maine. They hole up with Barry Fitzgerald, the solidest down-Easter this side of Galway, and get busy fleecing the yokels...