Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...season that St. Mary's River becomes a veritable hell for mariners, with ice smashing down the river. Sailors go through it, however, at the bidding of their masters zealous to wring a last dollar from transportation. Last week this sailors' hell was frozen over-solid. In the West Neebish Channel, in the Rock Cut and in Mud Lake there were spots where the waters were solid to the channel bottom. Not a ship could pass through. More than one hundred, 66 of them bound down with 15,000,000 bushels of grain, had been caught...
Octagonal. The University of Pennsylvania last week sounded a novel note in U. S. collegiate architecture. Designs for its new auditorium, seating 2,500, have been changed to octagonal perpendicular Gothic, of solid yet soaring effect, somewhat ecclesiastical, topped by a gossamer-thin spire which rises sharp from the pointed apex of a central square tower...
...People's Party', are in possession of nearly a third of China. They have succeeded more than any previous ruling group in subordinating the military to the civil departments. Their general, Chiang Kai-shek has proved himself a tactician and politician of rare ability. He has unified a 'solid South' to combat the Northern militarists and to espouse the cause of reform...
...solid South" invaded the Republican stronghold in eastern Tennessee and captured Hardin County for the first time since the Civil War. All through the South the number of voters was small, averaging scarcely one-third of the usual electorate. Georgia and South Carolina, as is often the ease, had neither a state nor national Republican ticket...
...removal of the 47 Workshop from Cambridge to New Haven did not, contrary to a widespread belief, mean the end of all serious dramatic activities at Harvard. There still remains an organization which, though young when compared with the Workshop, has built up for itself a solid and worthy reputation...