Word: sole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reported virtually to have conceded every Russian demand. Concessions were: 1) Specific military guarantees to the Baltic States; 2) Anglo-French-Russian staff consultations before the alliance becomes effective; 3) specific pledges by Britain and France not to make a separate peace during war, leave Russia holding the bag. Sole outstanding issue left to quibble over was Russia's demand that the Baltic States also be guaranteed against a change of internal regime, i. e. Nazification. If the pact reports proved true and the Anglo-Russian Pact is at last to be signed, it could mean just one thing...
...clumped into the Chamber in high boots, black trousers and green shirts. Nazis who were outraged when a Jewish photographer took their picture were admonished by their leader that "propaganda comes before all." The Hungarian Life Party members, supporters of the Government, came dressed in all black uniforms. Sole mufti-clad deputy was outspoken Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csaky, who thinks the Government Party's funereal garb "outlandish...
...monoplane sank. Oil-stained, tattered, handcuffed but merry as a tumbling bug, Cheston Lee Eshleman returned to Camden under police escort, was tossed into jail. He faced 1) a prison term for larceny, 2) a $4,000 fine for violating at least four Civil Aeronautics Authority rules. His sole profit: by-line story in Mr. Hearst's New York Journal and American...
...refer, at the outset, to the methods by which the report was considered an adopted. . . . Group discussion of the report was actually confined to four informal meetings to each of which some portion of the instructing staff had been invited. Each of these meetings offered those in attendance their sole occasion to discuss all the various recommendations of the report. At each meeting queries and doubts on many points notably on the proposed abolition of the assistant professorship--seemed at least as evident as signs of approval. No specific motions, however, were entertained. Each meeting was prefaced with the statement...
...tenure provisions of your report, in their negative aspects, have been put into application with remorseless retroactivity. In at least two clear instances men of undisputed capacity as scholars and as teachers have been given terminating appointments on the sole ground that they have already served the University more than eight years and that the budget does not permit their present advance to permanent rank...