Word: soled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sooner was the committee indictment out than the Navy chuffed up with its own report. "Direct and sole" cause of the fire, a Navy Court of Inquiry solemnly ruled, was "gross carelessness and utter violation of rules of common sense" by Robins Dry Dock employes. Full responsibility, the Navy grumped, belonged there. Recommendation: to sue Robins for damages to the full extent of liability...
Coon is universally regarded as an A-1 teacher; he has sparkle, humor, and a thorough grasp of his broad field. His courses on American, European, Asia, Africa, and Oceania are consistently first-rate, and show a careful selection of only the best material. His sole fault seems to be a sometimes hazy organization. Unfortunately, Coon may not be here next year, although he will probably be back the year following...
...spirit of the picture is that of the present age, mellowed by maturity and a conception of deeper tragedy, looking back on a gangling and naive but ever enthusiastic and dauntless period of its development. Roxie had her brief burst of glory in a time when bigness was the sole criterion of success, when the papers were full of nothing but big murders, big investments, big swindles, big fortunes, big failures, and big trials. So a publicity mad public, a press that knew which side its bread was buttered on, and a lawyer to whom law was all Greek...
...organized Pacifists have been allowed by the H. A. A. to quit drills and military calisthenics for less bellicose means of accomplishing the same thing. Going even farther, the Deans have excused from all athletics one extremist who felt that all forms of exercise at Harvard were for the sole purpose of building soldiers. Although embracing even aliens and 4-F's, compulsory athletics was fortunately limited before it could do harm. No blind urge for conformity has forced drilling upon men who will never be called to fight anyway...
...Sale of war damage insurance, provided for when Congress created a $1,000,000,000 War Damage Corporation within RFC, is being held up until Jesse Jones has come to an agreement with the insurance industry. Present plan is that the Government corporation will be the sole underwriter and take all the net losses, if any, but that private industry will operate the scheme. Latest quarrel holding up action: whether the insurance companies or their agents (each of which would like to cut out the other) will have the pleasure and profit of doing...