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Word: solids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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William and Mary is 800 years old this fall, and it is celebrating the anniversary by fielding one of the best teams in the South. The Senior-filled eleven that comes north to play Harvard next Saturday is the well-machined product of three solid years under Coach Carl Voyles, and is ready for a big season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Veterans Promise Big Year For Strong W. and M. Team | 10/3/1942 | See Source »

...pathway to the ultimate goal of a United Nations advance from the South Pacific is long and tortuous. Closer to Tokyo by 600 miles is the U.S. air base at Dutch Harbor. Here last week, at the northern end of the Japanese arc, U.S. air power struck a solid blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Slugging Match | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...good a Guinea Pig as the best of them is Subsistence Lab's big (six-feet-two), roughhewn guiding genius, Lieut. Colonel Rohland A. Isker. A hearty but discriminating eater rather than a scientist, Colonel Isker built a solid reputation in the cavalry by always feeding his men the best there was. He went to the Q.M.C. Subsistence School in 1934, later became commanding officer of the laboratory. Not all his experiments have been successful. Tomato bread, for example, was a flop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Iron Ration K | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...whom have been openly antagonistic to air power as an independent force, suddenly to decide that victory over Germany can be won this year or next year only by bombing? Do you expect them to admit that they have been wrong? . . . At 60, an Army-Navy mind is a solid, impossible to aerate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 21, 1942 | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

Through the Nazi's solid wall of censorship word seeped last week to London that the strike kept on. And there were stories of sabotage. Fine sand, mixed somehow into lubricating oil, was scarring the bearings of Luxembourg's railroad engines. Railway signals misbehaved; the transport system went awry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUXEMBOURG: Bodies for Souls | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

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