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Word: soled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...today and Davis Cup tennis could be resumed next week, athletes with names as foreign as some of the present-day battle sites would be the competitors." Thus mused hardy, red-haired Mary Hardwick, England's No. 1 woman tennist, now touring U.S. Army & Navy posts for the sole purpose of playing a few sets of tennis with homesick soldiers and sailors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tomorrow's Tennis | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

WAVES' sole difficulty at tower work was not anticipated. On their first day they wore skirts climbing ladders to the towers. Sailors gawked. Next day slacks were regulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Rulers of the Air | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

After the Bingo. But marriage introduced Gardner to the inside of show business. Gradually he worked into producing, directing and writing radio shows. Now the sole owner of Duffy's (where they catch the "after-Bingo crowd"), he nets about $2,000 a week. Gardner admits that he himself is indistinguishable from his character Archie. After a recent broadcast a woman towed her young son up to Gardner and pleaded : "Talk to him like Archie." Said the astonished Gardner: "How else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: New York Hick | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...universities the sole hope and repository of civilization, as President Hutchins contends in TIME (March 1)? . . . Somehow or another civilization seems to limp along, painfully and haltingly to be sure, and will probably continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1943 | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...Wedgies" are the latest styles for paratroopers. The new rubber heels, made by Goodyear, have a smooth junction with the sole to avoid snagging, provide a better cushion for hard landings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wartime Technology, May 31, 1943 | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

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