Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this detailed mass of technicalities emerged the solid fact that President Roosevelt's discretionary powers over Foreign Policy would be sharply limited. In his strain to prove the honest will of the Administration to keep out of war, and to prove his intent to give Congress control over Foreign Policy, Senator Pittman even went beyond the Constitution. For, under the Constitution the President cannot be ordered by Congress to proclaim a state of war. Constitutionalists held that this provision of the bill would subordinate the White House to Congress...
...easy to get a cable under the bow, Commander Momsen explained, because it was tilted upward, off the bed of the ocean. The stern, however, was sunk deep in solid blue clay...
Future tycoons of finance will find a solid foundation in CRIMSON Business Board work. The make-up of the paper, dealings with advertisers, copy-writing, and salesmanship are all within the province of the Business candidate, while at the same time valuable experience in selling oneself is part of the game...
...Inland, Cleveland's Otis, Detroit's Great Lakes (division of National) were reported to be sold out at 100% of production until well into 1940. Syracuse's Crucible Steel, No. 1 specialist in alloy steels for gun and shell forgings, automobile and aircraft parts, was booked solid through January 1, In the industry's tin plate division, which normally loafs after Labor Day, U. S. Steel's modern tin mill, Pittsburgh's huge Irvin works was so jammed that 63 old-fashioned handmills in Pennsylvania and Ohio have been called out of limbo...
...trudging toward the mines and factories where they are about to assume their tiresome and cog-like duties at the machines. The artist accentuates the depressing atmosphere which pervades the lives of these men by using as a background grim, grey chimneys and buildings, in addition to a cold, solid, winter sky. It is not difficult to see that Fiene is attempting to show the gradual degeneration of a human being into a walking piece of steel...