Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tremendously difficult to guess, is the bitter payment exacted from the gigoles in return for which they have received nothing worth while. In spite of this very worthy but hardly original religious by play, the book leaves the felling that you have been listening to two solid hours of very bad jazz...
...economy. It looks as if the young American writers were inclined to teach it hereafter to your formidable Press; at least so it may be hoped. There are two neat short stories, one of which, called "The First of the Month," precedes, by way of hors d'oeuvres, that solid repast, the 'Report'; the second, also neat, and more difficult in theme, is "Musk and Melons." The conception, in both cases, is generous and sentimental, but is worked out with restraint of form. Concision, too, marks the interesting lines entitled "Abnegation"; and, still more, those on "Bereavement," which strike...
When the present session of Congress opened, the same combination of Democrats (dissatisfied because Mr. Woodlock is a Democrat who often votes Republican) and Radicals seemed likely to prevent Mr. Woodlock's permanent appointment. And other opposition appeared. It came from solid Republican Pennsylvania, especially from active Senator Reed, who charged that his state, through which runs the Pennsylvania Railroad, lacked representation on the Interstate Commerce Commission, had not received a square deal...
Vastly more solid is the International Harvester Co., which makes practically every tool the farmer may need: beet pullers manure spreaders cane mills motor coaches coiled springs motor truck units corn bundlers movers corn cultivators plows corn pickers potato diggers corn shellers rakes corn shredders reapers cream separators culti-packers seeding machines engines side rakes ensilage, cutters speed trucks grain binders sweep rakes grain headers tedders harrows threshers harvest threshers tillage implements hay loaders tractors hay presses hay stackers twine listers wagons, etc. These are made at plants in Chicago, Rock Falls, Canton (Ill.), Ft. Wayne, Richmond (Ind.), Akron, Springfield...
...residence districts got under way. But the Industrial Canal, although available to the city remains unused. The city wants the Government to dredge a shipway through Lake Pontchartrain to the Canal. But the Federal authorities for one reason or another feel that the municipality itself should do so. Nevertheless solid business improvement, propelled by the promise of the Canal, has continued. A Florida-like boom seems impending at New Orleans as well as along the entire Gulf Coast. But the local people have proceeded slowly, have waited for more normal progress...