Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today he has the reward of patience, of self-discipline and of that kind of shrewdness which sometimes is inherent in very simple men. Peace and trade are his sole philosophy and at Buenos Aires his single track, so far as man can see, goes on to that horizon...
...when his chance came, it was at a moment when Franklin Roosevelt was eager to capitalize the Hull policies. Success may or may not crown his efforts but at last he has free rein, such as few U. S. statesmen ever have, to attempt the things that are his sole belief...
...brought by Founder Ward from Alsace, and who will mount any skeleton from a humming bird to a mastodon. Humming bird skeletons once cost $25, but Preparator Kirchoff now turns them out with such dispatch that the price has dropped to $10. John Santens, 60, Ward's sole surviving taxidermist, is officially retired but keeps on working. So many schools and museums now teach taxidermy that Ward's demand for stuffed animals has fallen almost to zero, and the antlers of moose, deer and caribou cluttering the biology department gather much dust, few orders...
...England eagerly seizes the extended yellow hand [of Japan] and cultivates an alliance which, from the racial point of view, is perhaps indefensible but whieh viewed from the national-political angle, offers the sole possibility of strengthening Britain's world position in the face of the ever more powerful American continent...
...Swedes have on the one hand pruned and doctored capitalism to protect it from its own excesses, and on the other defended it from the very real danger of Communist or Fascist revolution. In so doing they have not trifled with ideals and standards of any kind--their sole aim has been to preserve the privileges of John Q. Consumer--and they have bargained and compromised and applied pressure and given in gracefully on things as they came along--with only this in mind--"Does it work...