Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late to be used, we did not even take back, but sunk it in the boat we sent it in. It's main danger is in its arsenic ingredient, but it probably won't be used much, assuming that the enemy have it, which is doubtful. It forms a solid when mixed with water, and thus can be fairly easily controlled...
Brazil's President Getulio Vargas opened the Conference with a speech calling for "the most solid and powerful alliance of free and sovereign nations that the history of humanity has ever known." Señor Ruiz Guiñazú began to fidget...
...heating contributes to one of the most ingenious practices in modern arsenals-the centrifugal casting of gun barrels. Steel is induction-melted, then poured into a horizontally rotating mold which continues to spin until the casting hardens. Thus formed is a hollow, easy-to-bore barrel instead of the solid ingot from which cannon were formerly forged and drilled. Slag (formed by the oxidation of the molten metal) is forced to the inner surface of the casting, where it can easily be tooled away...
...hearty, life-loving Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn had made himself a precocious reputation as the finest society portrait painter in rich, 17th-Century republican Amsterdam. A proud, flamboyant personality, he charged Amsterdam's solid burghers, soldiers and surgeons high prices for his solemn, cloudy canvases, married a woman of wealth, spent money like a drunken lord on paintings, prints, armor, tapestries and pearls. Some of the ruff-necked portraits Painter Rembrandt did during this early period were as prim and vapid as their complacent cheese-eating subjects. But on the side he prowled Amsterdam's ancient docksides...
...said that in California, another active quake region, buildings are anchored to solid rock which shifts less than sand or gravel foundation bases...