Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not receive the gentlemen of the press daily, weekly, monthly, or even once a year. At long intervals the Dictator simply releases a statement with instructions that it shall appear verbatim in such and such news organs. Last week M. Stalin sent out a pronouncement which filled twelve solid columns in leading Soviet newspapers...
Marshal Joffre, to many smart, shallow people is "just a fat man who was lucky. But solid citizens still believe in him. They showed their faith when the franc was tottering (TIME, May, 3, 1926) by subscribing 19,000,000 francs to the Joffre Save the Franc Fund. Last week the final scene in that impressive drama was acted at Paris...
Hence the unusual crowds last week at St. Andrews, cradle of golf. They banked the fairways with solid walls of humanity, 20,000 strong. An obscure Frenchman named Rene Golias led half the qualifying play with a 71, and Cyril Tolley, the ponderous English amateur, led the whole flight with 144. But the main galleries followed "Bawby" Jones. Excursion trains stopped to watch him. Clergymen, grandmothers, policemen, cripples made shift to get a view. Wet greens-had bothered his putts at first but his second score, a 71, was a portent. Less whiskery than Tom Morris Jr. but quite...
...bottles were placed butt on cap "they would make a pencil of glass 63 miles high." They contained sufficient drink "to supply every man, woman and child in Oregon with a glassful." The glassful would be cold, for the freight cars were refrigerated. They made up "the first solid train of trademarked merchandise ever to pull out of New England...
...political development, guided by the light of science and civilization. I proclaim this sacred purpose from the palace which formerly belonged to the 'Shadow of God' on earth [The Sultan], but is now the property of the Turkish nation, which is not a shadow, but a solid fact...