Word: solids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only remaining ship of the old British felon fleet. She was built in 1790 at Moulmein, British India, and was originally used as an armed East India merchantman. Her tonnage is 1100, and she is 135 feet long with 30 foot beam. She is built throughout of solid Burmese teakwood. In 1802 the "Success" was chartered by the British government to transport to Australia the overflow from the home jails. There she became a floating prison to which men were sentenced for terms varying from seven years to life, often for what are now considered petty offenses. She was sold...
...wish that all this knowledge and mental stimulation that is being showered upon Cambridge with virtually every lecture hour could be used with enjoyable results outside of class-rooms and the covers of blue-books. Then really could he who prices himself on his "cleverness" stand or fall on solid merit; and he who is by nature reserved and silent find some few means with which to share his thoughts with appreciative friends...
...current number augurs well for a good year of the magazine. Several pages, it is true, are obviously filled with stuffing--with the tatulent buffoonery which comes of labored writing. Almost invariably the editorials are of this quality; some of the jokes, too, are hammered out on solid, lifeless anvils. The skit entitled "The Freshman and the Two Gentlemen" and the first of a series of "Prominent Harvard Graduates" do not commend the Lampoon's flowing bowl. And the text of the first page is scarcely better...
...most interesting experiments which is being made in the production is the use of stairways, arches, and solid masses, instead of the usual backdrop and wings. It has long been felt that the old method gives not only a false perspective, but does not lend itself easily to the effect which the scene-designer wishes to give...
...difficulties in the way of this plan are largely to be overcome in building the theatre and putting it on a solid foundation. The argument has been used that no theatre can thrive without the pressure of active competition; that the theatre-going public would soon lose interest in a publicly subsidized drama, with the idea in mind, in all probability or a glorified sort of hand concert on the Boston Common...