Word: solids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain, must be got out. But how? In Alec Guinness' Lavender Hill Mob, the gold was melted down into souvenir miniatures of the Eiffel Tower and shipped to Paris. In Ian Fleming's Goldfinger, the villain fled England in a Rolls-Royce whose body was made of solid gold. Scotland Yard has boarded and inspected all ships departing England-so far to no avail. Somewhere in England, the 144 gold bricks, whose telltale markings can easily be erased by melting, were probably bubbling merrily in a cauldron...
...four races Saturday at New Haven, Harvard built a solid 30-10 lead over Pennsylvania for the Ivy League championship. High winds Sunday forced a postponement of the final races until June 10. Andy Mitchell sailed to two firsts for Harvard, and Jim Lanckton took a third and a fourth...
...water had a terrestrial origin. If the moon was torn from the earth, he says, it would have carried off substantial amounts of water. Or if, as Urey believes, the moon was a planetary interloper captured by the earth, its gravity would have attracted terrestrial water as well as solid matter during the cataclysmic events caused by its close approach to the earth...
...midfields, reshuffled again by Munro, turned in another solid performance. Jim Kilkowski, Tom Nicosia, and Tom Engel, Saturday's second line, each threw in a score, and Marty Cain added one for the first midfield. Sophomore Charley Ames played with Cain and Alan Timber lake on the starting line against Princeton, after starting the season on the third line...
...about the Depression to depress him. After all, he adds, it was also a time when FORTUNE was saying that the Depression had "solved the eternal domestic-service problem in America." Maids could be hired for as low as $4 a month plus room and board. "Suburban citizens still solid enough to have gardens that needed care could have them tended for $1 a week." Not that Bendiner's family had any of those luxuries. Their only fun was buying on the installment plan. The day the Bendiners received a dispossess notice from their Manhattan landlord was also...