Word: lone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opened in Amsterdam's red brick stadium in the presence of Prince Consort Henry and Master of Ceremonies Baron A. Schimmelpenninck Van der Oye of Doorn. There was a parade of 44 nations, 4,250 athletes, beginning with the Greeks and continuing alphabetically. Cuba was represented by a lone white man; Haiti by a lone Negro. Egyptians wore red fezzes; the rest walked in white pants and blue coats. The U. S. delegation, largest of all, received one of the smallest cheers. A crowd of 40,000 packed the stadium; 75,000 would have paid to get inside...
Leopold Zimmermann has lived for three-quarters of a century and he has often played a lone hand. A peddler, with a willow basket full of shoe strings and suspenders, driving bargains in a German accent on the doorsteps of Manhattan. That was Leopold Zimmermann in 1870. A thriving broker, with offices on Wall Street where the New York Stock Exchange now stands. In those days (the '80s) the sign above the door said Zimmermann & Forshay. But David F. S. Forshay died in 1895 and Leopold Zimmermann went on alone. A rich and feverishly busy potentate, with his offices...
...Alaska holds 2,500 giant brown bears, classified with the grizzly in the census. Outside that territory, diligent search could produce but 880 grizzlies, half in Montana and none in California. One lone grizzly roams the state of Oregon; one dwells at Wasatch, Utah. Alarmed, the department reported: "The buffalo was never half as near total extinction as is the grizzly today." Ordinary, garden-variety black and brown bears have multiplied. C. Deer, elk, mountain goats and sheep show encouraging increases, while the national forests see few moose...
...that time he was neither particularly "Slim" nor conspicuously "Lucky," and by no stretch of the imagination was he either a "Lone Eagle" or "Flying Fool." He might have been called "Lindy" but possibly that was insufficiently picturesque. At any rate, when somebody corrupted his name into "Limburger" it appealed to the schoolboy sense of humor and was soon abbreviated into "Cheese," which stuck as long as he remained at Friends...
...miles of the vast Pacific. Before them lay "Aussie"*and safety and, for two of them, secure places in the list of illustrious Australian airmen. They thought of Wilkins, warming his hands after spanning the roof of the world (TIME, April 30); they thought of Bert Hinkler, lone voyager in an incredibly tiny plane (TIME, March 5); they thought back to Sir Ross Smith, pioneer of Australian aviation, who had flown 11,500 miles from England to Australia in 1919. A short hop of 1,795 miles, and they, too, would bring new honors to "Aussie," land of aviators...