Word: sola
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Women have never before been accepted as students, although a woman--Sola Mentschikoff--has been a visiting professor for the last two years...
...great hall with its Vasari frescoes and a Michelangelo statue, thence into an anteroom which used to be Pope Leo's chamber. Nothing so vulgar as a "no smoking" sign could be tolerated here; carefully chiseled stone tablets proclaim: "ll Sind-aco proibisce di fumare in questa sola" (The Mayor forbids smoking in this hall...
Archconservative, 59-year-old General Dutra was a thorough and frequent revolutionist until he connected with a successful insurrection. The Revolution of 1904 caught him up in its whirl even before he got through his cadet's training; consequently Brazilian officerdom speaks of him as a "Pescoqo de Sola" (Leatherneck)-a ranker. In the 1924 revolution, Dutra again fought the Government unsuccessfully. But he hit the jackpot in 1930 when he helped Vargas' "gauchos" ride into power. Since then he has been a staunch pillar of Brazil's neo-fascist "New State...
...performance. Undaunted, a miraculous hoodwinker who looks a little like Satan on stage and a little like Buffalo Bill off, who used to call himself The Great Jansen and who now bills himself as Dante, sailed into the Times Square district last week and set up Sim Sola Bim, a "mystery spectacle." Widely advertised as meaning "thanks to you" in Danish, Sim Sala Bim is actually a phrase from a Danish folk song, is roughly translatable as Ta-ra-ra-boom...
...Alleged battle orders, found on captured British officers, directing a battalion of the Sherwood Foresters to attack at harbors "512," "547" and "548" and take the Sola airport. The orders were dated April 7, two days before the German invasion...