Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Princess of Orange-Nassau, age 61, the sturdy, solid, cheerful Queen of The Netherlands, has been living a quiet and well-regulated life with her daughter and grandchildren on a rented estate at Lee, Mass. There she has impressed the natives with her neighborliness. Once she climbed through a wire fence to greet a neighbor who was haying...
Thus OCD last week reversed its No. 1 rule for fighting incendiaries, after new experiments at the Army's Civilian Protection School (in Maryland). Hitherto air-raid wardens and firefighters have been warned again & again that a solid stream of water played on an incendiary will produce a blinding explosion and sudden death...
...they are told that a solid stream is far better than a spray because: 1) It extinguishes the bomb in only a few seconds instead of several minutes-and incendiaries are usually dropped in clusters, demand quick action...
Under these twin compulsions-and with a new anonymous team at the throttle -Arthur Newhall's office began to make some coordinated sense; the Army got so aroused it started giving some solid orders too; Jesse Jones worried himself into setting up weekly Monday morning meetings to iron out interdepartmental messes and jealousies. And the program at last got set technologically on the sound basis that, right or wrong, nothing-absolutely nothing-would change it again, except a new discovery that involved better production with no change in existing plant-construction plans and no increase in material needs...
...thriller, except for Thompson's performance. The former member of Seranton in the Eastern League and Greenboro in the Piedmont threw the home team batters the fastest ball they had seen for a long time, and then turned around to lead his team at bat with a solid single and a two-run homer in the ninth over Ned Fitzgibbons' head. Although Thompson struck out four, his lack of practice was evident in the eight passes he issued...