Word: lone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stairs and hallaways would be frequented by students singly or in pairs. At the rush hours about eleven, twelve, and one o'clock Harvard Hall literally bulges with scores of students flowing at a maddeningly leisurely rate along the hall on the second stairway, and spilling out of the lone doorway into the Yard...
...make the victory even more emphatic, another Polish entry won second place. Far in the ruck was the lone U. S. balloon which met adverse winds, staggered to a stop only 520 miles from the start...
...total but too simple explanation of Fat Chaps would be that Mr. Rickett is lone-wolfing, that he got the concession by making Power of Trinity and his Yankee adviser believe that Standard Oil can stop Mussolini, and having obtained the concession, will now try to sell it to the highest bidder-perhaps even to Mr. Rickett's "friend," Benito Mussolini. The Rickett Concession was granted to "the African Development & Exploration Co." This was recently set up as a Delaware corporation by a discreet Manhattan firm which makes a business of incorporating dummy concerns and keeping their secrets...
North over hard, dry hummocks of wasteland to Point Barrow. Alaska one night last week trotted a lone Eskimo. In three hours Clair Oakpeha covered 15 miles. Finally he stopped, exhausted, at the door of the U. S. Signal Corps station. Out stepped Sergeant Stanley Morgan...
...Many a lone tourist to Russia hopes that the female Intourist guide assigned him by the State will prove to have the easy morals he has heard about. Among these Soviet young women themselves, the Leningrad guides gossip incessantly about the Moscow guides and vice versa, each group claiming to be the more virtuous. Once iron Soviet discipline barred guides from accepting tips in any form but this order has now been relaxed, and for months the girls have been openly angling for tips. Last week came Intourist's first wide-open scandal, impossible to gloss over since...