Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council was in the throes of organizing. It was no easy matter to thread the creeds and dogmas of dozens of sects and bring them together in a common Christian purpose. Out of a bog of conflicting theological ideas Dr. North led his confrères to high and solid ground-social service. An active minister and city missions worker, he believed that "when the standards of the Gospel shall have become the rule of Society, His Kingdom will be here." He wrote the first social creed for the Federal Council which was the cornerstone of its existence. That stirring...
...price of most articles is from two hundred to twenty-six hundred per cent higher in the stories than when they are landed in New York. An even more incredible hocus-pocus is put forth by Edward Robinson in a piece called "Musical Slaughter-House"; with remarkably little solid evidence to support him, he advances the thesis that the appeal made to the people last spring to support the Metropolitan Opera by monetary contributions was really a plot of the directors to retain their control and block any efforts to move into a new theatre...
...Present is a pleasant, long-drawn-out story of a well-to-do and unremarkable Chicago family. Written with that fresh-cheeked, whole-souled enthusiasm that characterized the late Louisa M. Alcott's Little Women, the book goes through the motions of a serious novel but never strikes solid ground. Readers who remember that Authoress Barnes's Years of Grace won her the Pulitzer Prize (1931) may find their expectations disappointed; those who do not hold her high reputation against her should enjoy the story for what...
Good sets by Designer Clark Robinson include a barroom walled solid with bottles, and a Russian cafe...
...quickly begun. Until the Tuesday statement of the Federal Reserve banks shows that credit is leaving the stagnant stage, the bankers will be an obstacle to industrial recovery. And they will not leave that stagnation, and pledge themselves and their depositors to the lending of money until they have solid assurance that the administration intends to give them a debt dollar worth as much as a real...