Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Groenewegen took over the job of Ralston's postmistress. In summer she made out all right. Then winter came. Mrs. Groenewegen donned her woollies, put on a coat and overshoes. An icy blast swept in through rifts in the ancient clapboard walls, and the floor was none too solid. Mrs. Groenewegen installed an oil stove with three burners, to help the old potbellied stove. Said she dourly: "The place is well ventilated...
...minded Chicago couple who sent leftover wedding invitations to assorted bigwigs they didn't know, Mr. and Mrs. Irénée du Pont sent formal regrets, a solid silver coffee urn, creamer, and sugar bowl...
...fact that the average number of hits in sea battle at long range comes to little more than 2% of rounds fired, the hit on one of Hood's magazines from extreme range of nearly 13 miles was fantastically lucky. And the British had their share of solid luck when one of their torpedo planes crippled a propeller and the steering mechanism of the Bismarck...
...never wrote a "masterpiece"-"the sentence was his unit"-but his theory of expression "was that on which Thoreau built, to which Whitman gave extension, and to which Hawthorne and Melville were indebted by being forced to react against its philosophical assumptions." Thoreau had Emerson's Nature solid underfoot to start his life on. In an analysis of Walden's quietly magnificent form, Teacher Matthiessen passes Thoreau on Coleridge's test of "the organic principle" -that form must arise out of the properties of the material-and names him one of the ancestors of modern functionalism...
...there are only a few changes on the new boat. One is a gadget on the stretchers calculated to make shifting them to fit individual oarsmen less difficult, and the other is the addition or laminated washboards instead of solid ones. The new shell is marked on the stern "P 85," which means it is the eighty-fifth shell in order of acquisition, and that it was built by Pocock. Below these cryptic figures is a "41," standing of course for the year in which it was first used...