Word: sole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this sole required course for Freshmen is to teach through discipline the how of writing. To speak is easy, even for the moron, but not to write. Expression on paper is perhaps the most difficult task that the educated man has to meet. A surprising number pass through Harvard knowing nothing about English literature and--most significant--ignorant of good grammar. To avoid a one-sided training, to stimulate the clarifying and transmitting of ideas, the University should compel, as a primary function, a writing course for every student, regardless of whether he escapes English...
...quest for social justice." He postulated that "Liberal regimes have always failed in Spain" and that "agents of international Communism as well as Democracy" have helped Leftist Spain. In its territory, charged the Generalissimo, 400,000 civilians have been executed as political opponents of the Leftists "for the sole reason that they believed in God and their Fatherland," Catholic Spain...
Reading TIME's ad April 4, I note that 66 out of 67 American consuls are subscribers, the sole exception being the consul of San Marino. I am a bit vague as to the location of San Marino; I have even less idea as to the identity of the consul. ... It does seem, however, that his TIMEless existence is indeed regrettable. . . . Accordingly I am enclosing my check for five dollars for which please send him TIME each week for one year...
...sole but vital aim of last summer's bloody strike had been to win signed bargaining agreements from Republic, Bethlehem, Youngstown Sheet & Tube and Inland Steel. When strike tactics failed, S. W. O. C. began filing charges with the labor board. Certain that it had a majority of the workers in two Inland Steel plants, S. W. O. C. decided to lodge against this company its most far-reaching complaint: that by refusing to reduce an oral agreement to writing, the company had refused to bargain collectively in violation of the National Labor Relations Act. Last week, Chairman Madden...
Unofficial sources revealed late late night the decision of the State Labor Relations sub-committee to determine once and for all the legality of the American Federation of Labor's contract with the University whereby Locals 186 and 112 are given sole bargaining rights...