Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time the election was held last week, external pressure had molded the lump of lard back into one solid piece. Belgians were so frightened by what happened to an internally weak Czecho-Slovakia that they crowded to the polls to elect a Parliament of unity, moderation, stability. Most extremist parties lost seats while the moderate Liberals and Catholics gained. Socialists lost more than a quarter of their strength, and the fascist Rexists were almost completely wiped out. Even Eupen, Malmédy and Saint Vith, supposedly ardent pro-Nazi districts nearest Germany, voted 55% nationalist and anti-German...
...pulled up all the beads, and gave Mrs. Gregory a juicy steak with no wires attached. "I can swallow better now than I have ever been able to,"; cried joyful Agnes Gregory as she chewed on the first steak she ever ate. With periodical bead-treatments and swallows of solid food, the lining of Mrs.Gregory's gullet should stay where it belongs...
...roundish, solid man in immaculate dark clothes, with fine tight features and bright brown eyes, George Grosz has more to say of his precise technical discipline than of his feelings. But last week he confessed to a fascination with horror tales and movies, tapped his round head solemnly as he declared: "Every survivor is a haunted house...
...selected solid spruce planking one and one-half inches thick instead of the one-inch boards ordinarily used in track building. On a framework of two-by-fours he conventionally laid the planks lengthwise along the straightaways, but set them unconventionally across the course at the turns. He banked the turns at a 30° angle instead of the ordinary...
...kept open until the price permitted it also to be closed out at a profit. Since the ever-normal-granary program was expected to stabilize wheat prices in a narrow range, the scheme visualized a steady realization of profits Apparently working all right until the wheat market broke a solid 30 points in 1938 the scheme, like Secretary Wallace's, proved something less than infallible...