Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that challenge was tremendous. It brought to us the message of hope in our new citizens army, not only as a first-rate military body, but as a nucleus about which can be built the solid structure of a better world order...
...Prime Minister told Parliament, "nothing has been more clear than that Hitler relied upon a starvation attack even more than upon invasion to bring us to our knees. ... So far as 1941 is concerned, these hopes at least have been dashed to the ground. . . ." There were figures, good solid figures, to substantiate this contention. Apparently the grim months when losses went so high that the Admiralty was frightened into silence-and when starvation seemed a real fear-were over. Whereas in the four months from March through June Britain and her Allies had lost 2,000,000 tons of merchant...
...solid three-hours of canvassing will be followed by the Union-supper, after which the students will enter the election-eve demonstration which is now being planned. A gigantic auto parade, which would bring several thousand cars to Quincy, and a mass-meeting, are among the large-scale events in which the students may participate...
Optimism has a great appetite, and is likely to feed so happily and so fast on morsels like these that nothing ever comes of it but the gas pains of bad morale. But last week the world was offered food for optimism which was solid food, stuff for bone and muscle...
Blown Up, Flown Up. Although powdered magnesium is explosive, solid magnesium is no more combustible than aluminum or iron, both of which also burn in foil or powder form. (To prove this point one metallurgist went about smoking a magnesium pipe.) But today less than 5% of U.S. magnesium goes into military pyrotechnics and scavenging; 95% goes into definitely nonflammable alloys of which about 80% goes into airplanes...