Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...solid silver hatchet head weighing a hundred ounces, which was recently found in Sonora, has been purchased by an alumnus of Princeton and will be presented by him to the museum of the college...
...cases of men who "cut," or treat condescendingly, a fellow-student because he wears a seedy coat or is unpolished in his manners, even though he has worked side by side with them in the laboratory or the class room for months, and may have given evidence of good, solid, manly qualities. In the majority of cases the man so snubbed will gradually, I think, rise above the contempt or condescension of his high-toned classmates, if he is a man of real worth; but think of the hard and bitter experience he must first go through, even...
Such language as this, uttered at a public dinner, leads one to consider whether the conservative element who declare that the moral effect of football is harmful have not, after all, solid ground for their assertions. The further fact that none of the alumni present arose to object to the language used by Captain Beecher as being unseemly and as evincing a deplorable spirit, might well lend further weitht to the arguments against the game. By their silence all the members of Yale present at that dinner signalled their assent to these bullying and indecorous words...
...championship prize in the singles is a solid silver pitcher, beautifully chased, and worth over $150. This will be known as the "New England Championship Prize," and must be won three times, not necessarily consecutively, to become the property of any one. In addition to this, the winner will receive a silver bowl outright. The second prize in the singles will be an antique toddy kettle on a crane. The prizes in the doubles will be cut glass punch bowls in cases. The tournament will be conducted under the rules of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association...
...never think of leaving their post on the outskirts of bookdom and opening a volume, but confine their admiration to the outsides of gaudy editions; these will be glad to know that the book is handsome to the view, while the reader will be pleased to find the binding solid and the type clear...