Word: solids
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gold Coast came big names in wealth and society. They hurried into the church, holding their furs around their ears. Large-boned, narrow-eyed Slavs in Sunday-best waded through the slush from smoke-stained frame houses and brick tenements near the stockyards. Priests, bishops and archbishops occupied a solid 14 pews within St. Procopius'. The occasion: the four-hour investiture of Father Ambrose Ondrak as Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Procopius, one of 21 abbeys of the U.S. Benedictines. The investing prelate: Samuel Cardinal Stritch...
Nothing for Reds. Actually, Lunenburg and the other owners were not much concerned with the relatively piddling sum involved. What concerned them was that a union run by a Red seemed to be getting too solid a footing in the industry. They had good reason to fear...
...Solid Methodists like their preacher to be a good mixer, but careful where he mixes. While 62.4% want him to be "a popular speaker at the Chamber of Commerce and service clubs, such as Rotary," only half as many approve his making "occasional addresses at labor union meetings," and 22.3% are flatly against it. On racial issues Methodists have few doubts: 95.7% condemn any minister who is anti-Semitic and 90.2% approve one who "proclaims equal opportunities and responsibilities for all racial and nationality groups...
...England as the first really satisfactory life of England's great romantic poet. U.S. critics should agree that, though Newman Ivey White's trenchant and scholarly two-volume Shelley (1940) has more information, Edmund Blunden's book has all that's necessary for a solid interpretation. A very fair poet himself, Blunden writes of Shelley devotedly, but with the ease and savor of long personal familiarity-not only with Shelley's works, but with his period (1792-1822), the scenes in which he lived and the mass of material about...
...time the Big Red defense was so effective that Harvard was unable to get off a shot at the basket, and appeared to be freezing the ball for one solid minute while trailing by 19 points. In the closing minutes coaches Roy Greene and Bill Barclay substituted freely, and the Crimson was able to close in slighlty...