Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME erred in implying that Reporter Kelly made President Green the sole butt of his baiting. Reporter Kelly's usual comment at conferences with Secretary of Labor Perkins is: "Well, we see you've been defending John Lewis again." TIME also erred in substituting "flubdub"' for Reporter Kelly's far better word, "flapdoodle...
...winds were steady. That this was not entirely the case was presently proved by TWA's crack Test-Pilot Daniel W. ("Tommy") Tomlinson. Burly and devil-may-care, he learned his flying in the Navy's celebrated acrobatic-team of Sea Hawks, of whom he is the sole survivor. Known as "Indian Joe" to the fleet, Tomlinson would stunt at night with lights out so officers could not see him. Eventually his gallivanting got him cashiered from the service and he joined TWA as assistant to President Jack Frye, himself a top-notch flyer. Today Tomlinson holds several...
...amiable old paternalist who was immensely pleased when his editorial workers recently informed him that they wanted him and not the Newspaper Guild to be their sole bargaining agent, Publisher Dealey has his plant plastered with pictures of the Alamo's Davy Crockett, with that hero's motto: BE SURE YOU'RE RIGHT. THEN GO AHEAD...
...this mixture of warmth and efficiency the company, started as a grain business on $100 of borrowed money, has prospered so greatly that the Coryell family, its sole owners, are now worth well over $1,000,000. In their business dealings the Coryells are shrewd, firm and virtually indistinguishable, father from son. Toward their employes they show a rather juicy paternalism. Six years ago Father Coryell instituted Monday morning chapel service for office workers whom he suspected of not going to Church on Sunday. A rumor denied by the Coryells is that there were penalties for nonattendance. Another exaggeration...
...holocaust caused by the University's stand on the receiving of women into the Houses, the President and his sixteen cohorts asked for a rejection of the "sole woman" parietal rule and a revision and standardization of the old rule. Upon President Conant's return from Europe the suggestion was adopted with a slight modification --the requirement of two males for one woman. Shortly after this compromise the Council, publishing the results of the previous year's investigation, requested that all laboratories be opened at night and that the actual time required for experiments be definitely stated in the catalogue...