Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wrangler (honors man in mathematics), fellow, lecturer, junior dean and tutor. He became an inspirational, evangelical preacher, was made canon of Westminster. In 1924 Ramsay MacDonald had him appointed Bishop of Birmingham. Anglo-Catholics protested, have continued to protest. As a churchman, Bishop Barnes is as low as a sole. During one church quarrel he exclaimed that he would "not be driven to Tennessee or to Rome." To him they both represent "degenerate religious thought," one a "refusal to admit the truth of man's evolution from lower forms of life," the other a "belief that spiritual presence...
...Diminution of Unemployment" sounded like most of the unemployment relief plans that every German Chancellor from Luther to von Papen attempted: a program of public and private works to cost 1,000,000,000 marks for which the government will issue Treasury notes, under the sole supervision of Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht...
Bullet. Two months ago at Lake Garda, Italy, stocky little Francesco Agello, 30, sole survivor of Italy's 1931 Schneider Cup team, whipped the seaplane Red Bullet over the course for a new world record of 423.7 m.p.h. A month later his chief, Colonel Mario Bernasconi, was timed unofficially at 434 m.p.h. Last week Warrant Officer Agello, leader of the speed school, tried the course again in his Red Bullet. Timing cameras, again unofficial, caught his speed at 440 m.p.h...
...U.S.L.T.A. continues its usual system. The American players go to Wimbledon. They blast the rest of the world aside. Then to Germany, perhaps, where the victory is less brilliant. Then weeks of vicious internecine practice in which the beat each other regularly thus destroying all confidence and by the sole and necessary fact of defeat make accord raters out of champions. They live on the Place do la Concorde, world's noisiest square. Unable to sleep, they stroll the streets till midnight. This means getting up about 12 o'clock the next day for the match. A child of twelve...
...point, that the sale of outlines infringes on the rights of authors, is not only a justifiable one, but opens the sole practicable line of attack against the tutoring bureaus. The argument, however, remains justifiable only so long as the books assigned in courses remain suitable. This they have not altogether been: in some cases the books recommended or required in various fields are ridiculously expensive; in other cases, they are wretchedly written, far too long, and almost demand an auxiliary outline in order successfully to be utilized. When such conditions arise, the bureaus are almost justified, in their claims...