Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...designed the Imperial to float like a flexible collection of barges on Tokyo's soft mud. The floors were cantilevered on supports which carried them the way waiters carry trays on one hand. To keep the center of gravity low, the outer walls (double shells of brick poured solid with concrete) tapered toward the top. All piping and wiring was laid free of the construction in concretecovered trenches. An immense pool guarded the building from the fires which usually follow Japanese quakes...
...Price of Butter. Beneath his old-fashioned journalist's prose, readers could trace the change in U.S. attitude toward Europe-a change from Sunday feature stories (with an undertone of the comic strip) to solid, informed reporting about such brass tacks as the EAM in Greece and the price of butter in Britain...
...flowers was real again-Maine's goldenrod, Wisconsin's black-eyed Susan, New Mexico's Indian paintbrush. Suddenly there was nothing outlandish in the thud of a punted football, the rhythm of a dance band, the bright expensive look of department-store windows, and the solid, unshattered buildings. Across the land last week it was hot, and once more the U.S. people could listen with contentment to that most peaceful of all evening music-the tinkling of the lawn sprinklers, turning drowsily in the darkness...
...more than arms alone. This is a victory of liberty over tyranny. . . . Back of it all were the will and spirit and determination of a free people-who know what freedom is. ... Liberty does not make all men perfect, nor all society secure. But it has provided more solid progress and happiness and decency for more people than any other philosophy of government in history. And this day has shown again that it provides the greatest strength and the greatest power which man has ever reached...
...deft as his lyrics. If the picture had delicacy and imagination to match its competence and good humor -and if its pastoral charm had real outdoor authenticity, instead of a germless soundstage look-State Fair might have become an entertainment classic. As it stands, it should be a solid...