Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Massachusetts held a primary and, though Massachusetts delegates arenot legally bound, the writing-in of names gave Candidate Hoover the state's solid backing, 39 strong...
...prospect of his own death. Said he: "I am here today and gone tomorrow; but let no one think Fascism goes with me. . . . I do not know how long Mussolini will last, but Fascism shall last longer. ... I will leave to Italy the institution of Fascism established on solid grounds-an historic institution. . . . The youth of Italy shall be trained so that in this country there shall be a place for each person and each person shall be in that place. Let no one waste his time speculating on what will become of Fascism when Mussolini is gone...
...paintings was called Here Am I. Another was Man's Last Pretense of Consummation to Indifference. A third was titled Behold, I Have Graven Thee on the Palm of My Hand. Remembering much solid and conservative work which had previously been signed by Charles Sims, remembering, too, the portrait of George V which Painter Sims had executed at their request and which they had been forced to decline because it gave the monarch spindle legs, several of the Hanging Committee thought it would be kinder not to show these last ridiculous and dreadful pictures. Charles Sims had written twice...
...Amalgam-an alloy of mercury with another metal or metals. Mercury is the only metal which is liquid at ordinary temperatures and its alloys are pliable substances ranging from liquid to solid according to the amount of mercury used. They are mechanically convenient for use in dentistry...
...years she has been the bovine sultana of his model dairy farm in Lower Austria. Cartoonists draw the President in company with Bella more often than they picture him alone. Yet last week Dr. Hainisch took firmly away from Bella with his own hand a small bell of solid gold which he had hung, two years ago, about her neck...