Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chambers. We got out to inspect the bathhouses. Said Kudriavtsev without emotion: "They came here first for a shower. Then the Germans said: 'Now you have had your wash. Go in there.' " He led us into one of four gas chambers. It was a solid grey concrete room, about 20 ft. square and 7 ft. high. A single large steel door sealed the entrance hermetically. There were three apertures, two for the pipes which brought in the gas, one, a thick glass peephole, protected by steel netting. It took about seven minutes for this "Zyklon B" to kill the occupants...
...himself in Spanish, with dramatic gestures of disgust when he flubbed a point. But Pancho got a head cold, and in the semifinals a headache; there he came up against Indianapolis' lanky, steady Bill Talbert, 4-F (for diabetes). A sound stylist with good ground strokes and a solid net game, Talbert drove Pancho to distraction and defeat in five long sets...
...contrast to his opposite number, noisy, dashing George Patton, Hodges is a sober, soft-voiced professional with a clipped grey mustache; like Bradley, he is a solid infantryman. Unlike Bradley he went only one year to West Point; then enlisted and fought his way up the ranks...
...Terminal, covering a solid city block, will be built near the Manhattan end of the Holland Tunnel as soon as construction materials are available. It will be designed to handle as much as 2,000 tons of cargo a day. Two important advantages : 1) quick interchange of freight between over-the-road trucks and local delivery; 2) a wide, flat roof capable of parking 128 truck-trailers that otherwise would block narrow city streets between trips...
Thus strengthened, the conservatives moved up for the final battle. On their side were all the Republicans (save North Dakota's lone corporal, Bill Langer) and a solid regiment of Southern Democrats...