Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election was a personal triumph and a bright green light. Tired of trying to rule with a minority in the Dail (House of Commons), he had astutely seized the opportunity offered three weeks ago by an otherwise unimportant defeat (TiME, May 22), asked the people for a solid majority. Last week he got what he wanted...
...article on "handsome, patrician Joseph Clark Grew." For so long you have described and accented the personal defects of politicians, statesmen, actors & actresses, and other persons of prominence as "bowlegged or knock-kneed, or hair-lipped or cross-eyed, or bald or paunchy" that it is a real and solid pleasure to know that Ambassador Grew is "handsome and patrician," and . . . makes me feel that my belief and faith in TIME as a pleasure-giving, information-gathering publication has not been misplaced...
...solid ground Of nature trusts the Mind that builds...
...Independents exhibit the work of anybody who can put up the $5 entrance fee. This year's exhibitors included a bartender, several housewives, a cowpuncher, a brassiere manufacturer, an Internal Revenue agent. There was also solid work by such established artists as Jose de Creeft, John Sloan (Independents' President), John Taylor Arms, Walter Pach...
Since it went to work on July i, 1940, RID has discovered and closed 361 illegal radio stations. RID had very little left to do last year. But it could point with pride (backed by loud praise from the military*) to a solid record of detection in the Western 'Hemisphere, and even in Africa and Europe...