Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signified! No doubt the rallies have been put aside as expressions of kiddish emotionalism unworthy of college men. But without some kind of real, honest-to-God enthusiasm directly instilled into the men on the team, we have no right to expect them to defeat teams whose members feel solid support behind them...
...legislative oratory, the hasty precision of modernity has killed leisurely and reflective style. These faults may be laid at the door of American classrooms, where teachers are inculcating "a feeling of world solidarity," and forgetting that the secret of teaching people to read intelligently is to give them a solid basis of English classics for their judgment; those teachers lose sight of the fact that good writing is dependent, not on "the effective humanization of a child" but on the rigorous exercise of writing in imitation of good authors. When abecedarians begin to speak of "effective humanization of a child...
...solid south seems to be more solid than ever this year...
Latest returns at 8.45 o'clock showed Roosevelt leading in 25 states, while Hoover holds only Mass., Penn., Maine, Vermont, N.H., Ohio, and Mich. The Solid South is more solid than ever, while in many of the states Hoover has received no electoral votes...
...your interesting article (Oct. 24) describing Xavier University, first U. S. Negro Catholic college, New Orleans, appears the statement: "Many a white Southern college would look shabby beside Xavier, with its solid copper gutters, chromium equipment in the laboratory...