Word: soled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proposals to isolate 10,000 men for the sole study of liberal arts as leaders of the post-war world Conant condemned as impracticable. No man would long be able to withstand the moral pressure, nor could parents actually favor such a course for their sons. Moreover, he pointed out, such men would have little chance to "lead the world" when they had not felt any of the actual hardships of warfare themselves...
...R.A.F.) and CBC's E. L. Bushnell conceived Front-Line Family early in 1941 under a table in a London restaurant during an air raid. Many an actor arrived at the studio in time to play a part he had just experienced. One player showed up in bandages-sole survivor of a high-explosive bomb which had smashed his flat. Sympathetic listeners dubbed the program The Blitz Family Robinson...
...aware of the dog's great value to armies of other nations, DFD rounded up dogs suitable for training as messenger, sentry and pack dogs, offered them free to the U.S. Army. After six months, the War Department at last recognized the dog, made Dogs for Defense its sole and official procurement agency...
...Uruguayan spectators as "Nazis." A heat wave killed seven people, felled 461 with sunstroke. In Montevideo the Inter-America Hemisphere Defense Committee made public specific instances of Nazi espionage in Argentine territory. Chile broke with the Axis (see above), leaving President Ramón Castillo's government the sole neutral in the Western Hemisphere...
Seventh child of an Italian carpenter, Basso Pinza was born in Rome in 1892. His only youthful distinction was as a middling bicycle racer. The turning point came when he happened to sing O Sole Mio in the shower after taking second place in a local race. The man in the next shower told him he had a voice. Pinza was soon on his way to Bologna, where home-town folks chipped in to help him through the Rossini Conservatory. He scarcely had time for a jerkwater debut, when he was mustered into World...