Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gold & Jewelry. Even more dazzling than the paintings are the gold and jewelry of Goring's collection. There are stacks of tableware made out of solid gold. There are two boxes in one of the rooms, both solid gold and crusted with fine gold handiwork set with precious stones. The center piece of one is an enormous aquamarine set in gold filigree on an ivory panel. There are gold candlesticks by the dozen...
...Every screwball with thick lenses and a long haircut is setting up shop as an expert on the returning veteran. If you wife or sweetheart runs behind a good, solid oak table when you finally go bounding in the front door, don't say we didn't warn...
After 1918's Armistice Day, the doughboys of World War I spent much of their time cursing General Order 241. On the theory of completing the troops' training, Order 241 called for six solid hours of drill a day-to keep the doughboys busy enough and tired enough. World War II's brass hats have a better idea: a whopping sport program...
...meteor, or fragment, which hits the earth as a solid body is called a meteorite; one which explodes in the air, a bolide...
Last week Dr. Henry P. Van Dusen, president-elect of Manhattan's Union
Theological Seminary, cited this and other solid evidence to show that
foreign missions are "in some respects the most amazing achievement of
Christianity in all its history." The evidence is in his new book, They
Found the Church There (Scribner; $1.75). Chiefly it is a collection of
personal stories and testimonies by scores of servicemen.