Word: solidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard is undefeated in two games and an exhibition match, but the upcoming pre-January schedule will be an accurate measure of the Crimson's real quality to say the least. New Hampshire is incredibly tough at Durham. and Brown, whom Harvard could face twice before Christmas, is as solid a team as any in the East. And a match with rebuilding B.C. a week from Wednesday could be the most difficult of any of them...
...took office, the sly rumor went around Washington that, in fact, there were no Republicans in town. They certainly seemed invisible. Nixon himself appeared almost anxious to avoid the capital-weekending at Key Biscayne, summering at San Clemente. To some, his minions seemed scarcely distinguishable from one another, a solid, stolid bloc of Rotarians, Elks, safe Middle-American technicians. "Writing about the Nixon Administration," sighed Humorist Art Buchwald, "is about as exciting as covering the Prudential Life Insurance...
...these bell-like reverberations were unlike any seismic event on earth, Columbia University Geophysicist Gary Latham offered a plausible explanation. The effect may have been caused, he said, by a layer of rubble or fractured rock sandwiched between bedrock in the floor of the Ocean of Storms and a solid cover of fine material deposits above. Lacking dampening fluids or gases, the layer of rubble may have acted as an echo chamber in which the seismic waves reverberated. If so, the next big seismic event on the moon should be a scientific spectacular; the third-stage rocket of Apollo...
...letter from a Kent faculty member advised me to burn my Kent newspaper clippings so my friends won't find out that I've become a solid member of the establishment at the age of 18," Schell said...
Welfare Squeeze. In several respects, however, the Hollister-Palmer thesis remains debatable. Many poor may have obtained their first jobs during the current inflation, but many others have held low-paying jobs all along. There is little solid information on how they have fared. Sketchy federal surveys indicate that wages of variety-store clerks and cleaning women in Atlanta and Philadelphia have risen faster than consumer prices in recent years. Andrew Brimmer, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, suspects that more complete figures-which no one collects-would disclose that the wages of many other poor workers have fallen...