Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book clubs, is himself a price-cutter and for that reason is by no means popular in the book trade. Jack Strauss, Macy's bookman, is his good friend. But shrewd Mr. Doubleday wanted a test-case on the law, and Macy's supplied a perfect one. Sole issue was the constitutionality of the State law. For Macy's, Lawyer Leon Lauterstein argued that the department store was being deprived of property without due process of law. He said that the books belonged to Macy's, that Macy's had the inalienable right to sell...
...Brown's sole scoring occurred in the second quarter, when Kapstein broke away to save his brethren from total disgrace...
...with the man and his work, Professor Matthiessen makes no attempts to conceal the fact that he is attorney for the defence, and he rests his case boldly on the actual performance of Eliot as poet and as critic. He does not claim, like most advocates, to be in sole possession of the whole truth, so his tone is never arrogant or impatient; the only handicap with which his advocacy and enthusiasm have encumbered him is the tendency to deduce universal 'laws' of poetry from the practice of Eliot, but that obstacle has not seriously impaired or blunted his critical...
...years graduates have adopted the attitude that Harvard belongs only to those favored men who received their degrees back in the halcyon days of Republicanism, prosperity, and prohibition. They forget in their selfish possessiveness that the college exists for the training of youth and not for the sole purpose of providing a sacred shrine whose keys are possessed by representatives of a past generation...
...strengthening [of] our defensive forces within the framework of the League for the sake of international peace, not for selfish ends." These British forces, although within the framework of the League, may be used by His Majesty's Government alone and at their sole discretion, the Prime Minister indicated later in a radio speech. "Whatever may happen," he said, "the brunt of any trouble must fall on the British Navy-in conjunction with others, if we were fortunate, possibly alone, if we were...