Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military planners had their own interservice wranglings. The Navy wanted the target ships in open formation; the Air Forces wanted a closed formation to increase the destruction. But against the concerted civilian assault, the services formed a solid front-despite all obstacles, the tests should go ahead on schedule. A delay of only a few weeks might force postponement until next year, because of unpredictable weather conditions in the Marshalls after July. The test might never come off-further postponement could always be urged on the ground of bigger bombs or better instruments just around the corner...
More importantly, it raises the question of the value of all justification, however eloquent or authoritative. For justification is not truth. And only through the rigorous search for truth can come a solid basis for U.S. understanding of Russia's success or failure in solving the critical question of the 20th Century...
Although they stuck close to the Big Green during the first period, Captain Bill Ayres and his teammates were clearly no match for the fast skating and solid checking of the Hanover aggregation. Time and time again a Crimson forward would break away with the puck, and race unsupported down the ice, only to lose it as the Dartmouth defensemen combined to eliminate him before he could get a shot...
From the eminently respectable Portland Oregonian, the Post stole solid, affable, eminently respectable Publisher Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, who at 48 is still the white-haired boy of Western journalism. The lure: around $52,000 a year. Though friends of both asked what they saw in each other, Ep Hoyt and the Post were sure it was a fine match...
Because they were afraid that Mexico City's new bull ring might not be as solid as it looked, Government officials insisted on testing the upper deck with tens of thousands of bags of cement before letting 48,699 enthusiastic aficionados swarm in for last week's inaugural corrida. Besides being the world's largest, the ring is the world's fanciest, will have indirect illumination for night fights. Spain's great torero, Manolete, spry again after his recent goring (TIME, Dec. 24), starred at the opening, was paid $25,000 (U.S.) for killing...