Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, Will Hays confirmed the Archbishop's announcement. A Presbyterian elder whose solid connections helped get him his job. Tsar Hays has long mollified church people and women's clubs with bland promises of reform...
...volume (The Store) won him the Pulitzer Prize and was chosen by the Literary Guild. Last week appeared the final part of Author Stribling's trilogy (Unfinished Cathedral), which in turn was chosen by the Literary Guild. But Author Stribling had won more than official plaudits. By his solid, slowly earned popularity he showed that in the long run U. S. readers, though they may be taken in by shoddy, like honest homespun better. Readers who passed by The Forge and The Store will do well to retrace their steps, but Unfinished Cathedral stands foursquare by itself, needs...
...people were not feeling any too well when King Frank and Queen Octavia opened the civic celebration with their triumphal landing at Jefferson Davis Park. Unofficially, the "South's greatest party" had started night before. A host of otherwise solid citizens had dressed up in their dinner jackets and had taken their wives, sweethearts and daughters to a prize fight at Ellis Auditorium between somebody called Eddie Wolfe and a pug named Harry Dublinsky. To lend tone to the affair, Jack Dempsey was picking his nose in the ring and acting as referee. After Mr. Dublinsky and Mr. Wolfe...
...before the Eden speech was delivered in Geneva, solid Stanley Baldwin rose in the House of Commons...
...system has attracted many prominent educators. If a more intensive and expensive curriculum is to be established both in courses and tutorial work, for the scholar nucleus; a less-arduous life might well be planned for budding lawyers, doctors, businessmen, clubmen, football coaches, and future unemployed who constitute the solid background of Harvard life and finances. The term "two-degree system" would mean more than two varieties of parchment. Its general operation would liberate the picked scholar from the toils of the more elementary courses, from the stifling contacts of the inferior section meetings, and from the drag of ordinary...