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Word: solids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liggett's was taking inventory Sunday night with a sadistic gleam in its eye, but Monday morning found tooth-paste still within bounds, and the girl behind the counter still booked solid through July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Prices Hold as O.P.A. Dies; Mike's Club Vacillates on Frappes | 7/2/1946 | See Source »

...third round, jeers began in the $30 seats, a half block away. In the $100 zone, Moscow's Andrei Gromyko (guest of Bernard M. Baruch) and Hollywood's Ann Sheridan were perhaps as disgusted, but more polite about it. In seven rounds, hardly a solid blow landed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stinking Fight, Huh? | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...long will the postwar boom last? The rosy estimates of three to five years have been based on one solid economic fact. During the war, U.S. consumers piled up $90 billion in savings, now hold $130 billion. This huge hoard, according to the economic witch-doctors, would be poured out-to fuel the boom. But last week, in a gloomy and significant report, the conservative U.S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much Prosperity? | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...larger commercial version which is expected to haul up to 275 passengers. But Convair has no orders for the commercial transport (Model 37) as yet. Pan American Airways has plugged Convair's Model 37 in ads for more than two years. But even Pan Am has placed no solid order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Winged Cigar | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...looks like a Roman Catholic priest after Hollywood's heart-from the man-to-man no-nonsense of his manner to the gentle, Celtic cadence of his speech. But South-Ireland-born Chaplain A. Hamilton Nesbitt of New York City's Police Department is a solid Methodist. Like many another Protestant churchman, Chaplain Nesbitt had long looked with Christian envy upon the way the Catholics get their people together. Why shouldn't Protestants use the same methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fighting Protestant | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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