Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commission imported 46 more pairs. The beavers settled down to stay. Needing deep water for their island lodges, they gnawed down trees, floated them through canals of their own making, gathered up sticks, stones and mud. With their strong front paws they packed all such material together in high, solid dams (see cut). Their houses, too, they built of sticks & mud, above water on solid foundations down to pond bottom. la oven-shaped, mud-floored rooms about 3 ft. square, 2ft. high many a young beaver was born, to swim and frolic without care until in the summer...
...round, Primo Camera lumbered out of his corner and shuffled his huge feet while Tommy Loughran dabbed his lantern jaw with a left jab. In the second and third rounds the champion tried to rush the challenger against the ropes but failed; Loughran, fast on his feet, landed one solid right hand punch. The fourth round was Loughran's, but by now Camera had learned how to crowd his opponent into the corners. In the fifth, he caught Loughran against the ropes and began to smash his face with wide clublike blows. A blonde woman near the ringside...
Death and injury came in curious ways. A New Jersey fireman, knocked into a drift by a fire hose, lay there unconscious until his fellows discovered him, a solid block of ice. A Long Islander tried to get home, found he could not make it, broke a window to find shelter in a vacant house, gashed his arms and bled to death. Three Jerseymen were marooned all night in their car near Harmony. Next morning they set out for help. One fell exhausted. When his companions returned with help he was frozen stiff. The Long Island...
...Yorkers paid 25? each this week to see one solid mile of native art in the Forum of Rockefeller Center's RCA Building. The occasion was Manhattan's first municipal art show, sponsored by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. The artists selected their own exhibits, many of which were old to private gallery visitors. Prices were not openly quoted but sales people rustled lists running from $10 to a reported $25,000 for such pieces as Nakian's Babe Ruth, Zorach's Mother & Child...
...mystic sense of sin, no dark preoccupation with the soul, no confessions of failure appear in Dr. Mott's books and speeches. A resolutely practical churchman, he is solid to the point of saying: "Always plan your leisure." While at Cornell, Student Mott wrote out advice to himself which he has since followed: "No worry, no excessive indulgence of the emotions, no doing two hours' work in one hour's time. . . . Have only a few intimates and those the best-for no man rises above the moral level of his intimates. Don't neglect the society...