Word: lone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assignment today and the lanky Junior, who demonstrated his ability against the Providence Friars last Saturday will get his first chance to start a Varsity game. After the walloping Friars had knocked Paul deGive and Frank Allen out of the box, Braggiotti stepped in and held them to one lone hit in the last three innings...
...Whiteside finally was cornered and admitted that he was thinking of the problem that surrounded the selection of the one passenger in the Varsity boat -- the lone member of the crew who doesn't work his way. To the ordinary observers the little coxswain is simply so much excess baggage, probably chosen because his weight is nearest the zero of any of the contenders. They admit that he's the only member of the crew who can see where he is going, and the only one who isn't looking at life backwards during a race. But that just about...
...metallurgy department students compain that they are forced because of inadequate facilities is Rotch, to trek to the Watertown Arsenal, where they can use the government's plant. The Engineering School furnaces, they complained, would not melt the metal, and according to one there was a lone calibrated graduate for measuring materials. The accuracy of these assertions could not be checked definitely...
...Returning from a fishing trip that summer, Shoemaker stopped one night at a dance hall which reeked of Wartime spirit. Bunting and flags aroused his ire to such an extent that he refused to stand up when "The Star-spangled Banner" was played. The crowd, observing the lone sitter, moved toward him in mass formation, growling, ugly, threatening...
...where the U. S. has extraterritorial rights, to arrest and send home any U. S. citizen wanted on criminal charges at home. Thus by acting speedily the President and Congress won a race with the slow-moving freighter Maiotis, still maundering last week somewhere in the Mediterranean with its lone passenger. Henceforth Samuel Insull cannot safely land in such countries as China, Egypt, Morocco. ¶ To Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee, the President sent a letter last week advocating passage of a bill taxing employers 5% of the amount of their payrolls but remitting...