Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most noxious of our walls is the one we have built around Cuba. It is a paper wall, erected in the offices of the State Department, and its sole functions to keep Americans out of Cuba. Americans who travel to that island without a specially validated passport face, on their return, fines of up to five thousand dollars, jail terms of up to five years, or both...
...Summer School social office has provided students with a truly prodigious variety of non-academic forms of amusement. But in all its splendid activities, with the sole exception of tours of Olde Boston's historic areas, there is, regrettably, no connection with anything peculiarly New England...
...vinyl age that has produced such a blossoming has as its sole historians Cataloguer William Schwann and his three assistants. The earnest list makers also publish a monthly catalogue of recorded music; most issues contain about 500 new releases, and record buyers feel understandably anachronistic if they own anything older than last month's book. But the nature and scope of the revolution in musical taste are best seen in the Artist Issue, which Schwann first published in 1953 and has put out five times since. It is a revolution of expanded taste as much as refined taste...
...Church of the Holy Spirit in Elk Grove Village, 111., a Chicago suburb.-His own literary productivity is positively staggering: in the past five years he has written more than 300 articles, and in 1963 alone he will have overseen the publication of six books bearing his name as sole or joint author...
...eccentricities, Hetty was unquestionably a financial genius. Operating through two holding companies of which she was the sole stockholder, she bought up property (in Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis) so shrewdly that by her death at 80 she had increased at least 20 times over the fortune she inherited. But no great American fortune has ever been dispersed quite so rapidly. In the nine years before his death in 1936, Ned spent it at the rate of $5,000,000 a year, much of it going into his collection of jewels and rare stamps and coins. When Sylvia, sole beneficiary...