Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antagonisms between Flemish and French-speaking citizens are a constant threat to stability. The Luxembourgeois, who speak French, German and a gobbledydeutsch called Mosel-fränkisch, do not even have an official language. They are 96.9% Catholic, but the government pays the salaries of the country's sole rabbi and its only Protestant minister. Even the country's few Communists profess loyalty to the royal family. Titular head of state since 1919 has been the handsome, highly esteemed Grand Duchess Charlotte, 67, who later this month will pay her first official visit to the U.S. since...
...leather industry that supplies the shoemen cannot afford to be unconcerned; 15 years ago they lost practically all of their leather sole business to synthetic Neolite. "If Du Pont succeeds in getting a few high-priced distributors to market synthetic shoes," says Boston Tanner Emery Huvos, "then we're licked. The prestige will get them the volume market, and that's what they're looking for." To try to prevent that, Leather Industries of America has doubled this year's advertising budget to $2,000,000 to tout the virtue of good old-fashioned leather...
...spending, help arrange commodity agreements and currency stabilization. Advising the parliament would be a staff of experts, patterned after the European commission (now OECD) that coordinated Marshall Plan aid. "Without such a mechanism,'' said Lleras in Rio, "the Alliance becomes just a presentation of petitions to a sole financier, the U.S., which seems to reserve for itself the right to condition aid to special circumstances in its relations with interested countries...
Harvard's sole first place in the entire meet was won on the first day by Captain John Pringle in the 400-yard individual medley. Princeton's Gardiner Green stole the 200-yard breaststroke from Pringles on the second day, setting new pool and Eastern records with a time of 1:18.0. Pringle's second place in this event and Chadsey's fourth gave the Crimson its only points of the second...
...intent of the classless community is not homogeneity, but individuality, and a Sarah Lawrence education is ideally focussed on the specific student. Each girl selects her Oxford-like advisor or "don", who has sole authority to counsel her, and criticize her program. Students take three courses a year, and of the 12 courses throughout the four years, all but two follow the unique format devised 30 years ago by Constance Warren, the school's first president...