Word: solid
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...until they had dropped over 500 tons of high explosive, 30 tons of incendiaries on the old city where Lady Godiva once rode naked to protest against high taxes. Coventry, "Britain's Detroit"-a city of 200,000 on the southern edge of the Midlands-became one solid, seething mass of fire. Not just the motor and airplane factories on the outskirts, but the entire heart of the city, square miles of workmen's homes in long neat rows; block upon block of shops and banks and pubs and offices; lovely old St. Michael's cathedral...
...hand in it, the book is as fresh as a daisy, has no trace of talking down. At home Dr. Levine answers every question of his three-year-old daughter. But he does not try to burden her with all the facts of life. Since his book has a solid grounding in biology, and gives detailed sex information, Dr. Levine recommends it for children past...
...Almanac soon began to show its author's convictions. In 1808, taking up the controversy of public v. private schools, he observed: "Fun, frolick and filigree are too much practised at the academies for the benefit of a farmer's boy. Let them have a solid and useful education." Eleven years later he was moved to warn: "Either the body or the mind must be engaged in honest industry; for idleness is like grog -take nothing else and-'you're gone...
...critical estimate of the artistic value of the piece would require a greater knowledge of Chinese art than I have. It is impossible to give an intelligible and solid account of such a monument without understanding its symbolism, characters, and historical background. I suggest, however, that for these very reasons, some explanation of the monument and a translation of the inscription be provided by the University and placed in front of the piece...
...permitted during the play, while Meier was realistically crucified with trick nails, while he was resurrected in white satin. Nor was there any applause for a solemn moment after the final curtain. Then it was loud and long, while many people swarmed backstage to stare at Meier. This solid urban success of the Black Hills Players made it appear that in Spearfish, S. D., the U. S. may have acquired its own Oberammergau...