Word: lone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elkins, veteran quarterback of two years' standing who is an important cog in the invading machine. Light, fast, an accurate passer, the 155-pound pilot is the guiding genius of Coach Littlefield's Lone-star-staters...
...Lone Star Ramsay? Characteristically the Prime Minister, Scottish individualist, did not choose last week to form a "national political headquarters" for unified command and election strategy. Conservatives had urged at the very least a "national platform"; but Scot MacDonald left his Conservative and Liberal friends to fight their battles (and his) in informal unity. His own job, as he conceived it, was to get his National Labor Party going, put some 50 candidates in the field, campaign as a National Laborite for re-election in Seaham, his old constituency (TIME...
...mind. He did not want to sell the Post after all. The other trustees expostulated, asserted that if money continued "to be poured into the Post, the estate of John R. McLean will become a mere myth." But by terms of his father's will, Ned's lone veto was sufficient. The sale...
...proceedings will be broadcasted over a nation wide book up. It is possible to foretell the announcer's description-"the twenty-four great doric columns each of pure marble weighing fifty-three tons apiece, the two graves within, and the lone willow tree growing over them...". Then the speeches. "A leader of a great democracy, a statesman who steered the ship of state safely through troubled waters after the war, a great American." Then the Star Spangled Banner...
...their studies. The net result was most gratifying. Activity was everywhere. Bottles were crashing into the street, "Ten Cents a Dance" was being sung from a room in Randolph in a voice which betokened the existence of something more substantial than the mere joy of existence, while one lone scholar was dangling a Phi Beta Kappa key out of the window while the read his notes on Semitic one squared hf. The Vagabond's head began to whirl. Such industry was not known in his days at college. He wondered what he should advice for those who were affected...