Word: solids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carried a fat, 40-page monthly supplement written largely by and for Negroes. Called Tuesday,* and distributed on either a Sunday or a Tuesday, it begins with a claimed circulation of 1,400,000, and may provide some stiff competition for the leading Negro magazine Ebony, which has a solid circulation...
...sculpture," one architect confessed. "It will never get lost in all the redevelopment that will come to the area, and it won't be dwarfed by the giant buildings that will grow around it." But for many viewers, the closer they approach, the more questions get raised. The solid concrete and marble exteriors of the two office structures seem as forbidding as a medieval keep and have reminded more than one critic of corn silos...
...Town area of Chicago was a dilapidated slum that was home to a lot of poor Negroes and Puerto Ricans but a pox on the face of the city. Set on the north side of the city just 20 blocks from the Loop, the neighborhood still had its solid old houses with the high-Victorian flare that had been built in the 1880s. But the solid burghers who built them had long since moved to the suburbs. And decay had left the streets lined with seedy bars and sleeping bums...
...penchant for practical jokes. There was the time, for instance, when he tipped his cap to the crowd, and out flew a sparrow. Such antics made it easy to forget the fact that his lifetime batting average over a dozen big-league seasons was a solid .284, and that he outhit Babe Ruth in the 1923 World Series-batting .417 and winning two games singlehanded with clutch home runs...
...Crayons & Glue. The records show that a healthy man can survive ten days without water (in cool climates), several weeks without solid food (in warm ones), 243 hours without sleep. He can endure air temperatures of 212° (for about an hour), water temperatures of 41° (for about half an hour...