Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MacDonald made no rejoinder, flew north to enjoy a short vacation in the soothing air of Lossiemouth. He left to heavy-jowled Deputy Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin the defense of their Government, which was suddenly attacked last week not only by the sharp-tongued Labor Peer but by a solid phalanx of Tory diehards. The Tories had three complaints: agitation against the Government's lukewarm policy in India, failure to take a half-promised sixpence off the income tax, and a demand for the removal of the heavy land tax imposed in 1931 by Philip Snowden as Chancellor...
...American senors had called up their black-eyed senoritas than at any time during the previous year. Even Shanghai Chinese were growing increasingly fond of the wired black devil. I. T. & T. finished the year with 4.4% more telephones than it had in 1931. Plainly Sosthenes Behn had a solid footing for his Ericsson deal. And last week came another evidence of I. T. & T.'s vitality: a new radiotelegraph circuit between San Francisco and China...
...Absolute Zero or 459.4° below zero Fahrenheit. Investigators had almost reached that point before by compressing helium gas and drawing off the heat of compression. This procedure brought them to - 451.84° F. when the helium gas turned liquid, to -457.6° F. when liquid helium turned solid. By compression and rapid cooling evaporation Professor William Hendrik Keesom of the University of Leyden last year reduced solid helium to -458.142° F. That seemed the ultimate, for Absolute Zero is theoretically unattainable...
Since the material of this course is conveyed almost entirely in the lectures, its success has been in large part the result of Professor Chase's pleasing personality and solid lecture method. Most of the time up to November Hours is spent in a study of the rather esoteric arts of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Prehistoric Greece, but the body of the course is devoted to the Great Age of Greece; the student is given a detailed discussion of the buildings of the Athenian Acropolis and of the sculptural works of the six greatest Greek sculptors. Roman art is discussed cursorily...
...each of which was attached an illuminated clothespin. Walter announced, "I'll show you a very nice trick in a moment." The "doughnut," a phosphorescent disc, seemed to move on the table towards Margery. "An earthquake," said Walter. He then rocked the table to demonstrate that it was not solid on its feet. He tore a piece out of the doughnut held over the table around a professor's left thumb. "Psychic dinner," the spirit said. Then Walter again said "Good Night...