Word: solidest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prizes. In the Grand American Handicap, big prize event of the meet, there were no favorites, for a 14-year-old tyro, shooting from the 16-yd. line, had as good a chance to win as a top-flight marksman shooting from the 25-yd. line. Solidest tradition of the 39-year-old trapshooting classic is that an "unknown from nowhere" usually wins, and the same person never wins twice...
...also rumored that Mr. Wilcox was drafted for the race by influential businessmen of Miami and elsewhere in the State. At any rate, he seems to have the support of the solidest of Florida's financially solid citizens. Mark Wilcox on Franklin Roosevelt: "President Roosevelt is not God. He is a man just like all of us. He is bound to make mistakes. When he does, I will vote against...
...your surprisingly thorough job you did not bring out one fact that largely accounts for South Carolina being the "solidest" Democratic State in the Union. That is, over 90% of the people living here were born in this State, the highest percentage of native born of any State in the Union...
...Solidest blow aimed at the Court itself in this year's battle was Senator Borah's charge that politics rather than law determines its judgments. For proof he pointed to its 1931 verdict against a German-Austrian customs treaty, when the judges divided according to the diplomatic and commercial interests of their native lands. But Senator Johnson voiced the popular argument when he cried: "We are dealing today with one simple proposition-shall we go into foreign politics ? . . . Once we are in, it does not make any difference whether we are in a little way or whether...
...Author Roeder slips adroitly through its thickets, his eye always on one of his relay of four guides (Savonarola, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Aretino). Not a portrait of some composite Renaissance man but four overlapping biographies of typical men of the time, The Man of the Renaissance is one of the solidest choices yet made by the Book-of-the-Month Club. Readers will not get quite so many pages (540) for their money as they did for the gigantic Anthony Adverse (TIME, June 26), but they will get almost as much instructive entertainment and weight...