Word: lone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dropping its gold buying price. Having about $11,700,000,000 worth of gold, one-half the world's supply, the U. S. cannot use the metal it already possesses. Yet the U. S. is virtually supporting the gold market singlehanded. Only recently, realizing that a lone peg for the world's gold price was not precisely an inspiration for international confidence, have Britain and The Netherlands resumed buying the metal...
...Three lone sets were all the Varsity tennis team could win from a strong University of Miami outfit on the windswept courts of Divinity Field yesterday afternoon...
...broken hull of the Titanic below, the Mendota lay at rest with her 90 officers & men lining her quarter-deck in full dress while Commander Henry W. Coyle Jr. read the burial service. A rifle squad fired three volleys, and the Mendota steamed away through the spume leaving a lone wreath bobbing on the waves...
...most diligent figure in Britain's newspaper world. In his silver-&-black modernistic office he works 16 hours on weekdays, eight on Sundays. Every night at 10 he telephones his press superintendent to get last-minute details of headlines, pictures, stories. Austerely aloof, this lone wolf of Fleet Street, who envies Press Barons Beaverbrook and Rothermere only their titles, seldom talks to them direct, receiving their messages through a lieutenant...
David Terry stood 6 ft. 3 in., weighed 220 lb., had a temper to match. Kentucky-born in 1823, he drifted down to Stephen Austin's colony in Mexican Texas, enlisted in the war for Lone Star independence at 13. Later he practiced law in Houston, and Galveston, fought with the Texas Rangers against Mexico, rushed to California in '49, set up a law office in Stockton. The Know Nothings put him in the State Supreme Court in 1855, but that did not keep him from resting in jail next year while the San Francisco Vigilantes waited...