Word: solids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...North and South American continents rooted immovably into the curved crust of the earth, or are they slipping slowly away from Europe and toward Asia? Probably there is no slipping. The earth's crust is exceedingly solid, exceedingly strong...
Business and Politics. "The nation is on the most solid basis it has enjoyed for years, under the leadership of a President whose ability and balance are beyond question. President Coolidge should and likely will be reflected to another term in the White House when his present term expires...
Lord Cave is now 69 years of age, was a scholar of St. John's College. As plain George Cave he entered the world from secluded Oxford to qualify in the legal profession. He attained a success which, if not brilliant, was solid and remunerative. He entered politics late in his legal career, being elected as Conservative member for Kingston in 1906, the year of the great Liberal victory...
Lord Cave undoubtedly lacks the brilliance of his opponent, Lord Oxford, and he has not served his country so greatly, so well, nor so long; but, despite this, he has a polish which is proof against the vicissitudes of fortune by which genius is sometimes defeated. He is a solid man, physically and mentally, a capable man and a practical man. The English often fear brilliance and almost always are suspicious of it. In Lord Cave, Oxford has found a man who has fewer enemies than most public men, a man who can be trusted for the rest...
After this the Communists had their turn. For a solid six hours their speakers occupied the tribunal. Their arguments were of the usual Bolshevik brand. Deputy Doriot, the most notorious of his crew, declared...