Word: lone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wide acquaintance among the coaches of the country and brought under his wing some two dozen potentially great football players who are eagerly at work at Wayland. The aggressive spirit and enthusiasm of the squad angers well for its success this season under the astute tutelage of Lone Star Dietz...
...lone outstanding weakness of the Boston brigade a year ago was its lack of a good forward passer. Coach Dietz has more than made up for this single drawback, however, by signing a sextet of clever forward passers any one of whom appears capable of filling the bill to perfection. Five of these lossers hall from little known institutions but they have revealed already that they will add greater strength to the celebrated Boston offense. The sixth passer is the brilliant Pug Reniner of Northwestern one of the most widely known of modern football players and a great all-round...
Unless the lectures, exceedingly informal and unprepared are changed radically this year, a man taking Sociology 8 will hear the same lecture at the conclusion of the course that he heard open it. And the lone explanation of the incompatability of curtailment and expansion...
Inside the plant two dozen peace officers and firemen tried to think. Assistant Fire Chief James Bolz had an idea. He telephoned to nearby California Institute of Technology, pleaded for an explosives expert. In a few minutes a lone automobile slid to a stop at the scene. Out stepped Professor William Noble Lacey, the brisk embodiment of Science, to the rescue...
...Lone bright spot in the steel business last week was the increased demand for tinplate wherewith to can drought-stricken beasts. Rut darkest spot in all commodities was the price of hides, down from 6½¢ per lb. to 3½¢ in the past week, or 15% in six trading days, because the market was glutted by Government slaughtering. After strenuous protest from tanners, RFC last week agreed to advance $10,000,000 to hold surplus hides off the market until demand increases or they can be dumped abroad...