Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said London Daily Mirror Columnist Cassandra: "The rank & file of the legal profession are solid in their hostility toward 18B. Lord Atkin's historic dissent becomes more apparent in its greatness. . . . We are putting plenty in pawn . . . and I for one don't like either the pawnshop or the pawnbroker...
...four times has he sculpted a man; never an animal. When he did Leda and the Swan, he left the swan out and concentrated on Leda. His sculptures seldom tell a story, never illustrate any high-flown saw or slogan. But his placid, broad-hipped, female torsos, mountainously solid, yet so graceful that they seem about to move, have been the envy and despair of fellow sculptors all over the world...
...agile-minded Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt took over, the Oregonian began a circulation march that in two years carried it to an 18,000 lead over the Journal. Then in 1939 the Journal bought the money-making News-Telegram for $525,000 and apparently clinched its lead with a solid 16,000 advantage...
Behind closed doors, in committee meetings, disputes sputtered all week. In the Statler's lobby and bar, there were several short but solid fist fights between C.I.O. brethren. Though Lewis stayed in Washington, Daughter Kathryn was at the convention. So was Brother A. D. ("Denny") Lewis. Surrounded by delegates of his construction-workers union, he sat glowering on his hunkers through the convention, ostentatiously keeping his seat whenever the rest of the delegates rose to applaud. When Brother Denny went abroad he was accompanied by a beefy bodyguard...
When the Knights of Malta sent off a solid gold jewel-encrusted falcon as a gift to their sixteenth century over-lord, Charles V of Spain, they could hardly have imagined the complications that would ensue when it cast its shadow over the lives of an English gentleman of leisure, an oriental scoundrel, an adventuress, and a San Francisco private detective. And when the spectator sees the quartet assembled in the detective's apartment for the denouemeut, he has hardly more idea of what comes next than when he hears the first shot ring out and sees the victim crumple...