Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elected president of the New York Cotton Exchange was John Chester Botts, stoutish, stolid partner in Jenks, Gwynne & Co. He succeeded little John H. McFadden, who, in addition to his duties as head of the Cotton Exchange, has had to spend a vast amount of time satisfying the curiosity of South Carolina's Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith, chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and an inveterate investigator (TIME, April...
...single regiment, Japan's Major General Kenji Doihara set up a pro-Japanese "autonomous government" in eastern Hopei known as the Autonomous Federation for Joint Defense Against Communism. Its head was a twerpish-looking young man known as Yin Ju-keng, whose only flash of independence is a stolid refusal to allow himself to be photo graphed with his two Japanese advisers...
...called because of his age but because that is a favorite nickname for a stolid driver. There are five other "Pops" in his division. Most Interstate drivers look like wrestlers because the company's minimum weight limit is 160 Ib. Haselwood is just over the line with 164. He is married, childless, makes about $225 per month. The one time he ever drove "like hell" was when a woman in his bus bore a baby...
...time to meet the Freshman physical requirements. In the future the exercise rules for all Freshmen will be abolished during the week before November hours, midyear and final examinations. This will allow three weeks before examinations and six weeks during the Exam periods, in which Freshmen may rejoice in stolid inactivity, with only a book in their hands to make the red corpuscles multiply or to get fresh air in the lungs. Looked at from this angle, Dr. Bock has been more than liberal in his concessions...
...Last week at Fort Jay on Governors Island, N. Y. a court-martial of one Brigadier General, six Colonels, one Lieutenant Colonel and one Major found stolid, grey-thatched Captain Ralph E. Fleischer guilty of violating three Articles of War. Because he embezzled from the U. S. Army icebox two chickens, pickles, assorted vegetables, two slabs of cheese and other victuals; because he gave false answers at a previous investigation; and because he bullied enlisted men and made them "keep their mouths shut," his senior officers sentenced this Quartermaster Corps captain to dismissal from the service. Pending review...