Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After a solid week of fighting, the 29th took the pool with bazookas, grenades, bayonets, then wiped out the last resistance at the south end of the oval. The capture had cost more U.S. casualties than the taking of many a German village. Among the U.S. wounded was a sergeant who had had both legs blown off by a mine. To a major who came up to his stretcher, he mumbled weakly: "We took our objective, sir." The major wept...
Lady Oakes, svelte, greying, Australian-born widow of multimillionaire Miner Sir Harry Oakes, appeared socially (at the opera in Philadelphia) for the first time since her husband was found murdered in July 1943. She pronounced Philadelphians "good, sound, solid people," planned to depart soon for her first journey to the Bahamas since her son-in-law, Alfred de Marigny, was acquitted of the unsolved murder there...
Merit Rewarded. The Time for Decision was only one of a heartening number of books which combined solid intellectual or literary merit and unusual popularity. Some others...
...chemist named F. S. Kipping, who developed the first practical formula for making them in 1904. Kipping saw little use for silicones. But researchers of the Corning Glass Works and General Electric, picking up where Kipping left off, have recently developed silicones in a variety of forms (liquid and solid) for a variety of purposes...
...chances were good that the voters would give it to him. Montreal's solid citizens were worried. They were backing stubby little Adhemar Raynault, who had been Mayor while Houde was interned. He had done an honest but uninspired job of presiding over Montreal's 99-man council. But Mayor Raynault, mindful of Houde's colorful personality and his record as an anticonscriptionist, was on the defensive. Said he: "This is not the time nor the place nor the moment to say whether my opponent was right in 1940." Answered Houde: "In the present struggle...