Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government was bound last week that if Henry Pu Yi is to return to his old home in the spring, that home will be empty. They had still another reason for moving the treasure. Nanking, the ramshackle half-rebuilt new capital of China, has always been jealous of the solid magnificence that the Manchus gave Peiping. With the Forbidden City treasure to deck Nanking (there is as yet no fit place in Nanking to display it) the new city will have the dignity befitting a great capital...
...appeared, from which I quote the expressions ""breezy westerners, stucco and tin of World's Fairs, new city with insurgent time for tradition and family to prove their merits, unthinking natives, ignorance, bad taste, jealousy. Anglophobe tendencies" applied obviously to the westerners, and the expressions "dignity, traditions, demand for solid cultural food" applied to the author's beloved New Englanders. By these very words, the editor betrayed a prejudicial opinion. Not only did he unjustly criticize the middle west, but he did so with the typical New England snobbishness of which the Tribune spoke. He stood branded...
...schools in which Latin was the principal subject and all else was taught as growing out of it. Today the curricula in Latin Schools are little different from those in other schools. Chicago's Latin School, founded in 1888, was probably so named because it sounded old and solid. Baltimore has a Boys' Latin School, established in 1844. But the most famed Latin Schools, oldest free schools in the U. S., are those in Boston and nearby Roxbury, founded...
ERIE WATER-Walter D. Edmonds-Little, Brown ($2.50). Solid novel of the building of the Erie Canal, by the solid young author of Rome Haul and The Big Barn...
When a Frenchman's well-worn leather purse is threatened his thoughts turn forcibly to Justice, he begins to talk louder & louder, may end by erupting with other Frenchmen into unseemly acts. Last week 10,000 solid citizens from various parts of France, members of the National Federation of Taxpayers, met in Paris, clamored for Justice until suddenly, shouting "On to the Chamber!", they started a rush for the Chamber of Deputies, grappled with Paris police, had to be beaten back by ornate cavalry of the Garde Républicaine...