Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia, Mayor Bernard ("Barney") Samuel's pachydermatous machine was too much for crusading Dick Dilworth, the Democratic candidate (TIME, Oct. 27). The machine delivered the vote in the solid downtown wards and buried Dilworth* under a plurality of more than 90,000 votes. Republican control of Philadelphia, undisturbed for 63 years, was secure for another four...
Stocked with the familiar pass-throwing T-quarterback, the speedy halfback, and the charging fullback, the Brown team of this November unlike some of old, has manpower pretty much on a par with the best in New England. Last Saturday in New Haven's saucer, Rip Engle's solid line, averaging 203 from end to end, kept Yale's Nadherny and Jackson under control and had some observers comparing them to Brown's Iron Men of decades...
...councillors, 14 of them Communists. One of the 14 was Renée Lehut. Last week the council met in public assembly to choose a mayor. The thing seemed to be in the bag. In a preliminary huddle, the "Cocos" (Commies), holding a majority, had decided to cast a solid vote for one Maurice Léonard...
...nights later "the old-time Princeton class spirit was back with all its pre-war force" as 500 defiant, dinkless Freshmen vainly battered a solid Sophomore phalanx in front of Alexander Hall. The Freshmen fought like "demons," the daily tells us. "Fists flew promiscuously, water and even water buckets dropped from above...
...Solid foundation of the Tigers' hopes is a healthy percentage returned from last year's outfit, spiced by two new backs who figure to outrace Crimson defenders tomorrow. Potent Paul Cowie, dashman who whipped Army's Glenn Davis last year, paces the Bengal attack, with help from George Sella, wingback whose twelve pass receptions this fall have netted him 285 yards...