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Word: solids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...materials were hard to get. But one managed. There were ribbons, lace, paper, straw, net-over-wire, pastel felt, cloth, solid feathers. And shapes showed gay imagination. There were tricorns, buckets, bowls, halos and even one with an alcove for Madame to fill as she fancied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Spring Styles | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

...very careful whom he calls a Communist. Many a Communist-at-heart takes care not to be one officially. What many an editor would like to know: is it libelous per se to call a man a Communist? To the growing body of legal opinion, on which a solid answer will be based some day, two noteworthy items were added last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Is Communist a Dirty Word? | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

This was the kind of solid fighting the fans wanted, the kind that conscientious Commissioner Eagan, himself a famed amateur boxer, used to provide in younger days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Solid Fight Fare | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

Abraham Lincoln scored an almost 2-to-1 victory over George Washington (except in the solid South) in a nationwide Gallup poll to determine who is now considered the "greater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fresh Start | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

Richard's uncles and aunts were solid, successful people: schoolteachers, carpenters, mail carriers. When his mother fell ill, they impoverished themselves to pay for her operations and care. She was in bed for ten years. "My mother's suffering grew into a symbol in my mind, gathering to itself all the poverty, the ignorance, the helplessness; the painful, baffling, hunger-ridden days and hours. . . . A somberness of spirit that I was never to lose settled over me during the slow years of my mother's unrelieved suffering, a somberness that was to make me stand apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Boyhood | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

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