Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...independent and five A.F.L. maritime unions, meeting in Washington, roundly rejected "Communists as traitors to the nation and a detriment to the solid permanency of a United States merchant marine...
...also foresees a squad that is "solid all the way down," with few standouts in the higher slots. Where most teams are evenly graded from the top men downward, the Crimson lacks exceptional players and is more evenly matched right through the team. "In this situation," Barnaby says, "we won't be in a position to mash anyone, but we're at the mercy of a well-graded squad...
...time he took over as CAB chairman, Jim Landis had built up a solid reputation as a crack administrator, fair & square. (He also has a redoubtable reputation as a bridge and poker player.) What he lacked was aviation know-how. Some of the CAB veterans supplied that. Colonel Clarence M. Young, 57, CAB's technical expert and onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, is a top man. Oswald Ryan, 58, another Harvard lawyer and one of the original members of the board, is CAB's legalist, steady, if not brilliant. Harllee Branch, 67, a onetime Washington correspondent...
Open City. This violent, beautiful movie about Rome's anti-Nazi underground has now run a solid year in Manhattan, is still going strong. On a mere 70 prints, it has grossed over $3 million in the U.S.-a colossal take for a foreign-language film. Soon its distributors hope to double the number of prints in circulation (TIME, March...
...attention to the sock, "we'll need every bit of backing we can enlist. No vote is too unimportant smirk, "Of course, we have to fight a pretty strong set of opponents. We're bucking the Liberal Union, the Lampoon, the Veterans Theater worshop, and the Hasty Pudding, all solid against us. We've got, the Advocate, but they may not unleash their power in time. Of course, you might say we've also got the Society for the Preservation of Free Enterprise. On freedom from enterprises naturally appeals to them. But that Varsity crowd is going to be tough...