Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris, a group of French stamp collectors posted an offer of one million francs ($40,000). for an envelope that held a message to U. S. citizens signed by George Washington and was the sole cargo of an experimental balloon flight on Jan. 9, 1793 from a Philadelphia prison courtyard to Woodbury, N. J. where Balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard delivered it to Woodbury's Mayor. The letter, of which the whereabouts are unknown, is called the "first letter ever sent by air mail...
...Sole result of the Congress, according to disappointed New York Timesman Walter...
Captain Foote and A. S. Pier '35, leader of last year's Freshman team, came in almost in a dead heat. E. F. Bowditch '35, another sophomore, followed about 50 yards behind them, closely pursued by Kenney, the sole Holy Cross man who placed in the first ten. Then came in order J. S. Hays '33, T. A. Robinson '34, E. S. Roys '35, John Wiggins '33, C. F. Woodard '35, and J. P. Scheu...
...greater extent, Young. Davis, Byrd, Baker and others, lose thereby the chief means of reaching the public with their much needed ideas. In this position they have dwindled into comparative obscurity, hastening the degeneration of their party and of the nation as a whole. The sole recourse for such men is a prominent, respected magazine such as the New Outlook purposes...
...latter claim, and the demand for return to government by party responsibility that justly deserve closest attention. Last fall an anxious nation placed the present ministry in power for the sole purpose of presenting a strong, non-partisan front to the imminent national financial difficulties attendant on a world-wide depression. It can no longer be reasonably maintained that that crisis is not past. But the Prime Minister justifies his continuation in office by indicating the need for a similar unified government in face of the pressing international problems of reparations, disarmament, and currency...