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Word: sole (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last night Quincy House gained sole possession of second place in the basketball league by defaulting Winthrop House 53-51 in a double overtime. Both teams had 4-2 records before last night's encounter...

Author: By Michael N. Garin, | Title: Eliot House Leads Close Race In Contest for Straus Trophy | 1/11/1966 | See Source »

...served on the Massachusetts and New England selection committees, I believe these impressions are somewhat in error. The selection committees received no instruction or intimation, either written or verbal, from the American office of the Rhodes Trust at Swarthmore regarding last year's heavy Harvard representation. The sole criterion now and always is that of selecting the best men in terms of the Rhodes specifications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO INSTRUCTION | 1/10/1966 | See Source »

...worker, and Lawrence Pressman as Bill Walker, the unreformed bully, skillfully carry their roles as far as their director will let them. Surrounded by these fine performers, Joan White seems weak as Lady Britomart. She fails to convey the strength and self-importance that one should expect from the sole manager of a large household...

Author: By Gregory P. Pressman, | Title: Major Barbara | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

Director Ken Annakin (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines) skillfully deploys the tanks across the Cinerama playing fields, but the end result is just another run on the bloodbank of the war. Bulge's sole achievement is that veterans may emerge from it feeling at least as affronted as Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe, defender of Bastogne, whose imperishable reply to German surrender demands was simply, "Nuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Backward Front | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...cost of $1,120,000 and ten years' labor, the Perpendicular Gothic pillars and spires stand renewed, the vaults and tombs are freshly polychromed (see color pages). The Abbey is actually under the jurisdiction of the Crown, that is, the English people, rather than under the sole rule of the church. When Elizabeth II comes next week to her "Royal Peculiar," she will come for the plain song and preaching more as just another communicant than as head of church and state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monuments: The Royal Peculiar | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

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