Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...touch with Dr. Jacobsen and followed the story as it developed over the succeeding months. Danish medical periodicals reported on various aspects of it, but not until the interim review of the first 500 patients to be treated with antabus was published in November did Schou consider the story solid. He submitted it to TIME'S Medicine editor, and it was published...
Actually there seemed to be no solid answers to any of these questions. Truman hadn't drawn up any detailed blueprints for his "bold new program," or estimated the costs. Explained a White House adviser "The President was merely convinced that the idea was sound, just as President Roosevelt, before detailed plans were prepared, was convinced that we could produce 50,000 tanks and 60 million jobs." In other words, it was more than a feeler, but not yet a program...
Coffee, 15?. The prices were an indication of the times. Some 47,000 grandstand seats along the parade route were sold out-at $2 to $10 a throw. Street concessionaires posted their price lists: coffee, 15?; hot dogs, 20?. Washington hotels had been booked solid for months-some at triple the normal rate-and clamorous visitors were begging for sleeping space as far away as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh...
Last week Strongman Perón unveiled his secretary's handiwork. At a caucus of Peronista delegates in suburban Olivos, he explained his proposals for a solid 2½ hours. From a backdrop, San Martin the Liberator looked out upon the assembly; the shield of Argentina balanced his blown-up portrait. Only once did Perón break off: to introduce la Señora and her grey poodle, Negrita, to the delegates. When the Perón speech was over, most Argentines, well aware that the revisions would be steamrollered through next week's constitutional convention, wondered...
...Thomas Edison to the oil industry, from Yankee clippers to undergraduate life at Princeton. There were no ads, no "think pieces"; there was a bare minimum of text. Explained 30-year-old Editor Robert K. Heimann: "In thumbing through [other magazines] I've often found myself skipping-the solid reading matter . . ." What text there was in Heritage could be skipped also. Example: "A nation's heritage is its people-'the fellers' in for a river swim, a girl waiting for a train...