Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traipsed through Washington's Union Station among the crowd hurrying to catch the 6 o'clock train to Manhattan. In his seat in the parlor car he was just one more traveler. Those who failed to recognize his square-cut features, his shag of greying hair, his solid bulk, little dreamed that they were witnessing the departure of a famed citizen on the greatest adventure of his life. William Edgar Borah, after 30 years of uncertain thought, was for the first time actually starting out to try to make himself President...
...second U. S. fight three months ago McAvoy distinguished himself by knocking out Middleweight Champion Babe Risko in the first round. Eager to duplicate that achievement, he pounced out of his corner last week when the bell rang for the first round, planted two solid lefts on Lewis' face. Stung but not stunned, Lewis retaliated with a hard right. In the rounds that followed, McAvoy continued to charge his bigger, heavier adversary. Lewis settled down to the strategy of a skillful animal trainer subduing the ferocity of an angry lion cub by poking it in the face with...
From Italy came the art of painting and many of the world's greatest painters. By the middle of the 19th Century, when the intricate casserole of Italian States was boiling into a solid whole, Italian painting had fallen to such low estate that Author Edmond About could justly say that Italy was "the grave of painting." Last week the Royal Italian Government, the College Art Association and the Italy American Society collaborated to bring to Manhattan's Rockefeller Center a loan Exhibition of 90 pictures by 29 young Italians intended to show how far from the grave...
Famed as the home of Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, Englewood is a solid suburban community whose weekly News lately editorialized in favor of a town incinerator which would prevent Englewood's poor from eating their fellow-citizen's garbage. Englewood's First M. E. Church, not the swankest in town but the largest and richest of the denomination in Bergen County, got its white-thatched black-browed Dr. Ball in 1931 by the usual Methodist method: accepting the man assigned by the local conference. With increasing apprehension Dr. Ball's congregation listened to Sunday sermons...
...certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher. Why then should it not be the right thing for the physicist to let the philosopher do the philosophizing? . . . At a time like the present, when, experience forces us to seek a newer and more solid foundation, the physicist simply cannot surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where the shoe pinches...