Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Better than Churchill." Everywhere Zezette and Philip went, Parisians cried: "Vive la Princesse!" During the races at Longchamp, people stood with their backs to the track so as not to miss a glimpse of the royal couple. Along the boulevards the crowds were solid: young men with girls on their shoulders, midinettes who buzzed about Elizabeth's elegantly homely clothes, and elderly gentlemen with Legion of Honor rosettes in their frayed buttonholes, silver-topped canes swinging gently in their gloved hands. People broke police barriers, crying "Serrez-moi la main!" (Let me shake your hand). One gouty old woman...
...successor. Ricardo Núñez' first bid for public office was a strong one. The son of the general who ran up the flag of Cuban independence over Havana's Morro Castle in 1902, he was one of the island's most solid citizens. Pennsylvania-born, he trained at Philadelphia's Lankenau Hospital and later became Dictator Machado's personal surgeon. Before long he got as deep into politics as Physician Grau himself. By last winter he was seeing as many politicos as patients, and University of Havana colleagues began greeting him with...
...speech took Bishop Oxnam, standing short and solid on the stage of huge, dismal Mechanics Building, two hours to read. He reviewed Methodist gains since the General Conference of 1944 ($27,011,243 raised for world relief and reconstruction; a record one-year gain of 1,063,734 new members). He restated the traditional Methodist stand against "the liquor traffic" and its "advertisements that seek to associate whiskey with success rather than with the gutter." He deplored the growing tendency of Methodist-founded universities and other institutions to break away from their church affiliation. Then he came to the main...
Shipping companies are already booked up solid for most of the summer. Airline bookings are ahead of last year. Both can ferry only 45,000 passengers a month (33,000 by sea, 12,000 by air), half as many as in 1937. Last week ship lines were still accepting tentative bookings-but only to replace last-minute no-shows...
...Great Grab. The sharp difference; in density between the inner and outer planets he accounts for in another way. The sun's atmosphere was hottest toward the center and cooler farther out. As the gas gradually condensed into solid particles, only substances of high boiling point (metals, mineral compounds) could condense in the hot inner regions. This accounts for the high density of the inner planets. Only in the cool outer parts of the system could light compounds like ammonia and methane get together in masses. The outer "protoplanets" grew faster; they were formed from more of the compounds...