Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...falsetto note of cheer was struck by the House Naval Affairs Committee. When reporters sought the committee's authority for saying that electronic detonation of approaching bombs promised to provide an effective defense, the committee turned out to have nothing more solid in mind than a newspaper interview with Crooner Bing Crosby's somewhat scientific brother Larry...
...Czechoslovak Communists, at best temporary friends of middleway revolution, have made no move to seize power or to upset the balance envisioned by Dr. Benes. But they hold solid posts in all the key strata of the nation's life-in the Government, army, trade unions, cooperatives, nationalized industry. They are still authoritarians. They flank Masaryk's portrait with Lenin and Stalin...
...Steve Owen's solid New York Giants, who have added some T to their offensive assortment and have pile-driving Marion Pugh back to pass and plunge. Making their own breaks as usual, the Giants this week tied the Yanks...
...those first days he had the solid backing of labor, which welcomed its new advocate to Washington. He sat down and hurriedly began to reorganize the Government's labor functions...
Jolly Cholly, an extrovert who exudes cheer and carries a banner of hilarity, inwardly is one of baseball's greatest worriers, a man who doesn't sleep well when things go bad. He slept fine after the first game. Solid Steve O'Neill, who does his worrying on the ball field and leaves it there, just waddled home to the Detroit-Leland Hotel and settled silently behind cigar smoke to read the horrible headlines. Sample (from the Detroit Free Press): "Tigers Wail...