Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR: petroleum, gas, solid fuels, electric power...
Greying, septuagenarian Herbert Lehman was still solid last week as a candidate to succeed himself in the U.S. Senate. But C.I.O. leaders had landed with all fours on the gubernatorial candidate, a little-known judge named Albert Conway. Using some of their favorite labels, they yelled hotheadedly that he was "reactionary, anti-labor and anti-Negro." The intimidated Democrats pulled out Conway; C.I.O. presented as alternates a list of Fair Deal names, including Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Democratic bosses shuddered...
...Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, this month's president of the U.N. Security Council, is tall (6 ft. 2 in.), greying (50 years), well-tailored and crisply spoken. He is also a top man in the British Foreign Office hierarchy and a solid man in his country's squirearchy...
...Germany's late Professor Alfred Wegener speculated in 1920 that the earth's continents were once a solid mass which broke up and drifted apart...
With that kind of pitching, and with solid hitting from Bauer, Berra and Rizzuto, Manager Stengel can afford to rest his old reliables occasionally, save them for the games where they will be needed most. If baseball history repeats, two such games will be the last two of the season. Last year, as no New York or Boston fan needs to be told, the Yankees won the pennant by taking the last two from the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. This year the teams end their seasons with a two-game series in Fenway Park...