Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stassen's top Minnesota lieutenants were pouring into neighboring Wisconsin, which will choose its Presidential favorites April 4. Stassen's name so far is entered only in Nebraska, where it will have tough going; in Minnesota, where it will get a solid favorite-son delegation; and in Wisconsin.) Able young Senator Joe Ball led the Stassen invasion of Wisconsin. Joe Ball made a smashing impression in Madison, with a state hookup. But politicos wondered: how much personal liking for Joe Ball would be translated into votes for his candidate, 7,500 miles away at sea? Minnesota...
...chimney of No. 21 rue Le Sueur had often smoked annoyingly. But never had the fumes seemed such a nauseating insult to solid Parisian nostrils. A housewife across the street finally lost patience, phoned the police...
...wartime casualty among the plushier prep schools last week was Connecticut's Avon School, formerly Avon Old Farms. Its founder, solid, idiosyncratic Mrs. Theodate Pope Riddle, announced that it would close in June due to war conditions...
...penetrating in sufficient quantity to soften it. A resin-stabilized road stays so dry that even when it is covered with a layer of water a truck driven over it throws up a trail of dust. Stabinol does not waterproof sand (because sand lacks a binder to make it solid) and it does not work on ground that is already muddy. It is most effective in heavy clay that usually becomes gooey when...
...Shipping), declared that ships built by master craftsmen in peacetime have suffered the same casualties. To keep their positions in convoys, the slow (10½ knots) Liberties often must buck mountainous seas while running at full speed instead of slowing down as they would normally do. Overloading with solid cargoes of jeeps and tanks is common. Too often the voyage home is made without sufficient ballast to keep the ships from straddling heavy seas that leave bow and stern dangling out of water...