Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere on southeastern Hudson Bay fortnight ago solid ice or snow-drifted muskeg echoed back the hammering exhaust of a ski-shod plane flying north. Aboard were an inspector and a corporal of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a doctor, a radioman, a pilot. They were headed for a barren mass of stone low on the surface of the Bay, the Belcher Islands. The reason for their flight was murder...
Latin America was so nearly solid behind the U.S. against the Berlin-Rome Axis that, in effect, an All-American Axis had been created. Whether Latin-American statesmen had been moved by the Good Neighbor policy or simply by a desire to jump on the band wagon now that the U.S. was acting vigorously, the immediate effect was the same. Latin Americans are realists, and active U.S. support for Britain had made the cause of freedom worth joining...
...flapjacks. There were Eilley and Lemuel Sanford ("Sandy") Bowers, she a boardinghouse keeper, he an illiterate mule skinner. They had a 20-ft. claim on the richest part of the lode, and at one time were taking $18,000 a week out of it. They built a mansion with solid silver doorknobs, made a trip to Europe to get furniture, tried to get an interview with Queen Victoria...
...revenge a 5 to 4 defeat at the Cadet's hands last season the Varsity baseball team entrains for West Point today, bolstered by a solid four-day stretch of outdoor workouts in the warm sun of Soldiers Field...
...Joan Blondell, recently publicized as Movieland's most glamorous mother, is called upon to sexify the plot's other-worldly meanderings is a question, especially when Carol Landis is present in a very solid state. Rochester, apparently benefiting from his expedition to Cambridge last May, appears in a coonskin coat to provide one of the picture's higher points...