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Word: solids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion that what mattered a few million more or less Chinese, that their situation was pretty hopeless anyway. I had contributed to our church (Presbyterian) mission work for schools and medical work, in the belief that education of the natives to work out their own salvation was the solid foundation which merited our support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...Said the solid, scholarly Economist: "Once again an enemy has been underestimated. Once again the impregnable has been assaulted. Once again British forces have gone out to battle inadequately supported from the air. Once again the boasts of the week before the campaign began have been made to look silly. Once again the public have been fed on stories of heroic stands and gallant retreats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Character in Question | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Besides the aversion of liquid for liquid, wetting agents help break down the aversion (wherever it occurs) of liquid for solid, solid for solid, gas for liquid, gas for solid. So every place in industry where substances must mix, mingle and dissolve, wetting agents are being applied as fast as researchers learn how. They are used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Good Mixers | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...this requires sweeping revision of the famed old standard textbooks (e.g., Robinson's Practical Arithmetic, Wentworth's New School Algebra, the Schultze & Sevenoak's Plane and Solid Geometry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Third R | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...Navy has had to turn down hundreds of candidates for commissions because of deficiencies in math, said Lieut. Commander Burton Davis, urging the preparatory schools to make every boy take at least two and a half years of math, including algebra, plane and solid geometry, trigonometry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Half-Baked Drill | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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