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Word: solids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started off with molten metal, which he has then cast, forged, rolled, extruded, hammered, machined, hobbed, drilled, milled and ground. But in the new General Motors cars there are some 25 parts, and in the new Chryslers 30, which started as fine metallic powders and were simply pressed into solid shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Solids out of Powders | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...regular guard spot on his Freshman team over Chub Peabody, but who has been ineligible for the last two years, proved his worth recently when he filled in for Chub during the first-string guard's injury, is the third member of the quartet. He weighs a solid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harlow Fills Out Gridiron Squad by Promoting Four | 9/26/1941 | See Source »

Requirements for admission are three years of an engineering school course of study, or its equivalent, including mathematics through trigonometry, solid and analytic geometry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Course in Air Mapping Offered to Engineers | 9/23/1941 | See Source »

...flock o' fresh stock is in, 'rarin' to go and creatin' a pile o' fuss per usual. This hyar piece is aimed at the latter (that's a two-bit word.) Mebbe so some of us old nags can fork you young colts of '45 a little solid horse-sense afore you go throwin' shoes all over the range...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '45 Colts | 9/19/1941 | See Source »

...slipped into a dark red swim suit, plunged into chilly Lake Crescent. Sometimes she chopped wood for the fireplace. For exercise the Secretary took hikes among the giant trees, where the wet ferns grow head-high and the epochs-old windfalls of trees are 50 feet high and as solid as a stone fort. Once they went salmon fishing-a pure public-relations gesture from Honest Harold, who loathes the water and once grumbled at riding on the President's yacht Potomac with a crack: "I'm willing to die for the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Nobody's Sweetheart | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

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