Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile downstairs dog-lovers had finished their plodding up & down between the solid rows of wire-fronted boxes where lay most of the 2,455 dogs which had not made the final grade. Two days earlier the dogs had been alert and slick, primed to the pink by kennelmen looking to reputation and profits through wins in the No. 1 U. S. dog show. Now dogs and handlers lolled together in the cramped boxes, panting in unison. But there was still enough spirit left in the terriers and high-strung German Shepherds to keep the basement a yapping bedlam...
...Park, Ill., having slept through two birthdays, an attack of lobar pneumonia and the marriage and maternity of her first nurse, Patricia Maguire, 28, victim of lethargic encephalitis, last week ended her second year of sleeping by sleeping on. She has lately begun to sit up, eat solid food...
...years Columbia's Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes has dangled this poser before his freshman class in mathematics. Prize for solution, by solid geometry only, was an automatic A in the course. Fifteen flights of freshmen were baffled until this term when one Herman Gewirtz of Brooklyn slapped down a solution complete in 50 steps, plus drawings...
...Macbeth Gallery in New York, which has been presenting solid conservative U. S. painting for 40 years, had a one-man show of water colors, oils and prints last week. There were portraits, landscapes of Maine, Canada, North & South Carolina, and an effective series of diamond point etchings of West Virginia mountaineers with their cabins, their sad-eared mules, their hound dogs. But for all its felicity of line one fact alone lifted this exhibition into prominence. It was the work of Harrison Cady, known to millions of children as the Peter Rabbit Man (he has made some...
...Arnold Bennett and David Herbert Lawrence went on to bigger and brighter themes. Now Authoress Phyllis Bentley, whose background is the textile industry of Yorkshire's West Riding, has taken up the smoky torch. The scene she dimly illuminates is industrial, but its appealingly human inhabitants move in solid outline against the drab shadow of mills...