Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bread may be, as the circular puts it, "just the gift for midnight cocoa parties in the dorm." But of all these items, and such others as a cerise-and-yellow Tattersall checked waistcoat, a set of Chinese checkers, dominees and dice encased in tooled leather, and a solid-gold hunting knife for skinning the game in field or forest, fifty Harvard undergraduates chosen at random offer a negative estimate. In fact, they say, "Phooey...
Patient B.H., 65, had a cancer of the esophagus. He could swallow no solid food. After the fifth injection, he ate a chicken dinner...
...shallow isles of postwar political journalism-and how often and how quickly the fleets of history passed them by! Others, more aware of present dilemmas tried to find answers in the American past. The year saw an extraordinary number of new books on American history, some of them solid scholarly achievements...
...written, naturally more authoritative, a rich mine of precepts-into-practice for students of warfare. A superior war book of a different kind was the late John Gilbert Winant's Letter from Grosvenor Square, a moving account of wartime faith that was a reproof to postwar disillusionment. Other solid achievements: the first two volumes of Samuel Eliot Morison's massive History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Professor William Langer's approving examination of Our Vichy Gamble, Major General John Deane's illuminating story of U.S. difficulties with Russia as a wartime ally...
...detail on a man who in the past three years has increasingly been regarded as America's greatest novelist. Franz Kafka was brought to life in Max Brod's biography and scalped in Paul Goodman's Franz Kafka: His Prayer. By comparison, Edmund Blunden's solid Shelley: A Life Story seemed a challenge to current taste...