Word: solidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Using his four iron. LoPucki hit a solid shot, which hit the ground a few feet from the pin and rolled into the cup for his double-eagle. He won the hole from the flabbergasted Smallnick, who dropped one more hole and lost the match...
...there were any bright spots for Harvard, they came few and far between. Captain John Ignacio hit three solid singles to left an now has batted 666 in the Crimson's last four games. Senior Bob Kalinowski was the least ineffective, allowing just two hits and one run in three innings...
...contrast to Lermontov stand Doctor Werner, his good friend, and Varvara Bekhmetyeva, his mistress, who pass through the novel unchanged. Michael Tratner, as Werner, plays from this vantage point with great skill, creating a physician who is solid and sensible, a man who has his head screwed on the right way. In doing so, he becomes the sorely-needed link between Lermontov's reality and his illusions, a function Lermontov becomes increasingly less able to fulfill himself...
Since those windy days, the speeches have been cut down-and the Oscar built up. In a business founded on insecurities, the statuette now seems more solid than the studios, more enduring than art. In the past, there have been recipients who put down the Oscar, and meant it. When George Bernard Shaw won one for his screenplay of Pygmalion, he boomed: "It's an insult." Director John Ford has won Oscars four times and has never attended a single ceremony...
...obstacle, Astronomer Peter van de Kamp, the director of the Sproul Observatory at Swarthmore (Pa.) College, set out 31 years ago to search for dark companions of nearby stars. His long effort has been well rewarded. Last week the Dutch-born, 67-year-old astronomer an nounced the first "solid evidence" that there is a system of planets other than the solar system. He has detected two planets circling Barnard's star, some 35 trillion miles away from the earth, in the constellation Ophiuchus...