Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business was dropped but the bank's annual reports show a reserve for old annuities which grows smaller each year and will disappear when the last annuitant dies. Bank of New York is dominated by no family or group except the self-perpetuating board of 26 trustees. Its sole branch is a colonial mansion uptown in the swank residential section. There the tellers may receive their socialite customers behind desks instead of wickets...
...another, that, "Prisons appear to be the biggest, shiniest target in the world. Anything that goes wrong is fair meat for almost anybody. A penologist's life, if I may borrow from Gilbert and Sullivan, is not a happy one." And again that "if prisons exist for the sole purpose of being agreeable, then the best citizens ought to be in them. If they exist in order to be primarily disagreeable, then we should certainly fire Mr. Gill. That, however, is not part of his policy...
...final game of the season, the Crimson basketball team will meet the Eli cagers in New Haven tonight. After a disastrously unsuccessful season, the Harvard aggregation is expected to make a last desperate attempt to outfight a superior Bulldog team and turn in its sole victory against a first-rate quintet...
...hold its naval bases on those islands. They quite rightly pointed out that if we did hold armed control over any part of their soil, in the eyes of other nations they would still be under the colonial wing of the U.S.A., that complete autonomy necessarily gave to them sole military powers over their own territories...
...greater success with the old admissions criteria than have other colleges. Recent surveys have revealed a disquieting discrepancy between grades on entrance examinations and subsequent records. No admissions criteria can be wholly successful which allow an opportunity for intensive cramming by schools whose curricula are devised for the sole purpose of shoving dull students past the artificial barrier between the preparatory school and the college...