Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herr President was likewise gladdened to receive from Oriental couriers a picture framed in solid gold encrusted with exquisite ivory mosaic work. Upon the canvas shone the portrait of a sovereign whose dark handsome features and calm imperious brow do not betray the daredevil brain within. A field marshal's uniform and the crown jewels of Persia served further to disguise this likeness of the Shahinshah Riza Shah Pahlavi, "the King of Kings," a onetime Russo-Persian adventurer, who recently overthrew the Kajar dynasty (TIME, Nov. 9, PERSIA) and has established himself on the throne of Persia with a civil...
...McGovern, of London University, and Dr. Julio Tello, Harvard-educated Peruvian archeologist, gathered scattered bones, bits of pottery and building stone; dug six yards down and found the red porphyry walls and courtyards of a city of unknown extent dating to 1000 B. C. Burial caverns, scooped into solid rock like the interior of flat-bottomed water-bottles with yard wide necks, contained groups of mummies sitting in circles, the chiefs holding carved wooden staffs. Headbands and other trinkets of gold; primitive pottery and "magnificent" textile remains, approximated the lost Tiahuanaco culture of the Bolivian highlands. The Paracas city...
...have never seen so solid and united a front as that presented by the Passaic mill workers in my large experience as a promoter. There was practically no inside friction, in spite of the fact that the workers were not held together or supported by any powerful union...
With the University leading by three runs in the last of the fifth, Captain Todd opened the inning with a solid triple over the head of the left fielder. The hit could have been stretched to a circuit blow but the Crimson leader was held at third. Lord hit a hard ground ball and when the short stop juggled it, Todd scored and the University first sacker was safe at first. Lord scored on Sullivan's scratch hit through the infield. In the sixth, three hits, a base on balls and two errors gave the winners four tallies. Zarakov walked...
Except for the two classic names. there was nothing to warrant excitement. In the first place, the malt tonic is unpotable. While it contains 3.5% alcohol, it also contains 25% solid. One slimy gulp of it is unpleasant, two are unspeakable, three unthinkable. In the second place, the permits granted were only temporary, and if U. S. ingenuity finds ways of using the tonic as a base for soul-satisfying beer, the permits will be, according to General Lincoln C. Andrews, speedily withdrawn...