Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been investigating American Bond & Mortgage. Thousands of investors have complained that this company gobbled up their money, returned them nothing. Charges have been made in court that Mr. Moore had a technique of financing a new construction, letting it slip close to bankruptcy and then somehow emerging as its sole owner...
Friday's meeting was suddenly called in order that it might take place before the dinner of the New York Rugby Club. Bothner was the sole Harvard representative, and some of the colleges were unable to send anybody on such short notice, but telegrams arrived from them authorizing the meeting, such as it was, to act for them. It is expected that Cornell and Dartmouth will be approached soon on the subject of joining the new organization...
...secretaries have worked at the big mahogany desk which belonged to Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., in a dark, book-lined room between the Justice's bedroom and his office. "Young fellow!" he calls out when there is work to be done. Another name for the secretary is "corporate sole" (a corporation consisting in one person, who in this case has his own reputation to make, his own duties to perform). Before Mrs. Holmes died (in 1929) the Young Fellow was expected to be present in a social capacity for the Monday "at homes." In the evening Mrs. Holmes would...
...tilt Harvard added one more run to the total in the eighth, and three more tallies in the concluding stanza, when Ticknor put his bats away for the day after driving out a nifty homer. The losers staged a slight rally in the eighth, scoring their two sole runs at this time...
Nathaniel Ware '34, Harvard shortstop offset his two fielding errors by three hits out of five times at bat, his single in the ninth frame driving in the sole Crimson tally...