Word: lone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dallas' Mercantile Bank auditorium last week, stockholders crowded in for the first annual meeting of Lone Star Steel Co. Texans were anxious to know how their first home-owned heavy metal industry (TIME, April 7, 1947) was doing. They heard the good news that Lone Star's stock, floated at $1.50 a share, was selling over the counter for as high as $7.50. Then came the bad news...
...large, Italians conducted democracy's most vital business, in a holiday spirit tempered by dignity and humor. In Milan, Contessa Castelbarco, Toscanini's eldest daughter Wally (see Music), was the first voter at her polling place in a schoolroom. The lone Communist member of the election board unctuously escorted her out, thanked her for voting. "Thank you," she replied sweetly. "But are you the host...
...Lone serious note of the program was injected by new football coach Art Valpey who promised "to build a gridiron squad in keeping with past Harvard tradition if the Freshmen and the rest of the College would think only of the team and not sympathize with any individuals...
Dick Harlow was always a lone wolf, wary of his opponents and his critics in the press and uncertain as to the ability of his assistant coaches. He demanded active command in all departments, and sometimes it was just too much...
...occupants of the plundered room, Thayer 39, revealed that the lone burglar had overlooked a $200 bathrobe, a $100 silver cigarette case, and a bottle of sherry, Peter J. Shumons '51, Lewis N. Travia '51, and James H. Wright '51 said the door of their room had been left unlocked...