Word: sole
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...education major" is doomed in California. In what Thomas W. Braden, president of the state board of education, calls a deathblow to "educationese," the state is drastically upgrading its teacher certification requirements. Ultimately, California will turn down all applicants whose sole or chief training is in the methodology of teaching. Instead, it will demand degrees in academic subjects, stressing substance over technique...
...cities" who exist "in relation to the church and also in relation to the state. These two aspects may overlap but they do not coincide. Neither are they properly considered in conflict." The Evangelicals reaffirmed their opposition to Communism but warned Christians against making it "the church's sole or main enemy." Another resolution called upon the churches not to withdraw from a wicked world, but to "penetrate culture." Christians, the statement urged, should dedicate themselves to applying the Biblical principles which promote "social justice and enduring peace...
April showers at noon and a brief Quaker rally later in the day were the sole external threats to Saturday afternoon's lacrosse game, but the varsity still had trouble stopping Pennsylvania in a low-scoring 7-5 contest. Harvard's poor shooting and equally ineffective passing, rather than Quaker prowess, made the Penn outing tougher than it should have been...
...aborigines; he does not have the lives of 10,000 better men lost in battle to explain away; he is not a busybody determined to pad the record of a long life spent in well-meant public mischief; he is not the survivor of unprecedented surgery or the sole eyewitness of some notable assassination or natural disaster; and he was never sentenced to 99 years in jail for something...
Despite his Irish patronymic, Brenan is at pains to make clear that he came from a long, dull line of clodheaded north-of-England squires and manufacturers. His father was a professional soldier of limited mind, his mother a vague sort. Neither wasted affection on their solitary son, whose sole oddity consisted in his early-formed will to remain solitary. On the surface he was dutiful and won a scholarship to Radley, where he learned the natural eccentric's trick of fitting himself to the prescribed philistine middle-class mold while preserving his essence intact. His hero was Rimbaud...