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Word: soled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playing a team that is as yet an unknown quantity, the Bunnies could not push over a single counter against the strong Dunster line, and for three quarters the game was a see-saw, ding dong affair, with neither side really coming close. Sole exception was the first period goal line stand by the Funsters after an interception deep in their territory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEPHANTS WIN 7-0; DUNSTER GAINS TIE | 10/31/1942 | See Source »

...height of this doubtful battle "Old Bory" had the face to ask Johnston to retire and leave him in sole command. In the months that followed, Beauregard's weakness for putting his vainglory on paper-and in the newspapers-made Johnston and Davis weary of him. He finally departed to Kentucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Generalship, With Examples | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

Glass is now going to war in a big way as a replacement for copper, aluminum, bronze, other scarce metals. Already centrifugal pumps with impellers, plates and other parts of glass are whirring. U.S. laundresses will shortly wield electric irons having glass sole plates. Glass plumbing for private homes may be around the corner. Industrial glass plumbing is already here to stay. Recent developments include easy-to-use glass-welding gadgets so simple that ordinary maintenance employes in the U.S. food industry can be trained to repair and even to install glass plumbing. The U.S. fisherman who uses cork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Glass Goes to War | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...expansion to the south and west-from Wake to Burma and from the Solomons to Luzon-the Japanese have probably not used more than 200,000 men, while China and Siberia have tied up perhaps 1,200,000. On many an island the Japanese stationed only suicide crews, whose sole mission was to get what information they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: How to Fight Japs | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

Meanwhile the average Mormon, who is fighting as hard for his country as anybody else, might draw what comfort he could from the fact that his church once more (after a ten-year lapse) has a Presiding Patriarch. For this sole Mormon hereditary position the conference last week chose Joseph F. Smith, great-grandson of Founder Joseph Smith's brother Hyrum, who was killed by the same Illinois mob that lynched Joseph in 1844.* The new patriarch is 43, father of five, heads the University of Utah's phonetic department and is one of the best amateur actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mormon Mixup | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

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