Word: lone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bring them back to Baltimore (TIME, Dec. 4). Farmers and fishermen of the Eastern Shore bridled at this procedure, attacked the Governor's troops. Last week the four prisoners, one of them a past commander of a local American Legion post, were returned to Princess Anne under two lone guards. Greeted like homing heroes, the men entered town on the running boards of their custodians' cars. A judge formally released them eight minutes after the court house hearing began. The State's Attorney General s office, which said it was unnotified, was not present to produce evidence...
Rubber Money. Last July when from the cruiser Indianapolis President Roosevelt tossed off his amazing monetary message which disrupted the London Economic Conference, his lone companion and adviser aboard was none other than Henry Morgenthau Jr. At the time Mr. Morgenthau's presence so close to the presidential pen was minimized or ignored altogether but by last week its full significance was startlingly plain...
...York chef who hastened out to the Midwest because "some big butter-&-egg man of those days" informed him there were "millions of bullfrogs" on his ranch. "He knew that because he heard them filling the night with their ke-dunking. Well, you know the rest. Like the lone coyote-like William Allen White-like several other of our institutions in this great Mississippi basin-he found that there were exactly three bullfrogs who were making all that noise...
...Homer Key sprinted 40 yd. through Vale. Thence he and his brilliant teammates Cy Grant and George Chapman, 200-lb. fullback, worked the ball to the 2-yd. line. Chapman punched over the touchdown. Yale played by far its best football of the season in holding Georgia to that lone touchdown...
...Providence College Freshmen team made its lone score late in the second period after a series of completed passes. The last pass from Garbecki to Banahan gave the visitors the touchdown. Providence was within scoring distance again in the last period when it advanced the ball to Harvard's 22 yard line, but was repulsed by the strong Crimson line...