Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pariserplatz, where stands the French Embassy, police mounted, and on foot, solid contingents of Reichswehr prevented any hostile demonstration...
Open fields on Long Island reverberated with the furious drumming of horses' hoofs. Riders shouted and strained. There was heard the solid impact of bodies, the crash of weapons, the slap and squeak of straining leather...
...Through solid rock, shifting sand, sliding mud, two great shields are boring toward each other under the Hudson River. When they have come together there will be a new vehicular tunnel from Manhattan to New Jersey. The moment of their marriage is, for the engineers in charge, the zero hour. The latter will not know till then whether they have calculated perfectly this blind meeting underground or whether their plans have gone awry...
This seems solid foundation for Mr. Marcosson's contention that the Government has pursued a policy of "masterly inactivity," expressed, for one thing, in conspicuous failure to solve the unemployment problem−there are still 1,000,000 men out of work. ... A unique situation summed up in the phrase, Labor without labor...
Referring to the Fascist militia, Benito said: "The militia has been most useful to us in the present crisis. These soldiers of ours remained solid and faithful and ready to defend the Government if any one had accepted the proposals of the subversive parties. The militia will remain. This is a matter on which I will not compromise...