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Word: soled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frequently contribute, in my small way, to China's necessities and shall continue to do so. It must be a small way because I am a retired rural teacher, my sole income has been $400 annually and that is not commensurate with my interest in this cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Perhaps the sole action of his life that MacArthur would willingly forget is the Victory of Anacostia Flats when, riding a spectacular white horse, he called out a military force to rout the haggard veterans of the Bonus army from their Washington encampments. Army men tell the inside story. When asked who was going to lead the show, MacArthur realized that any man who did would commit political suicide, wind up in a dead-end career. He decided to take the dirty job in his own hands. But at night he used to go down to the flats, distribute money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Destiny's Child | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

Giving all its funds to the Defense Service Committee, the Committee Against Military Intervention formally voted to disband last night, after the executive council had advised the action last Thursday when the declaration of war against Germany and Italy removed the group's sole function...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Interventionists Give Funds to Defense Group | 12/17/1941 | See Source »

...announced that it would support Isolationist Joseph B. Harrington who was running in the Massachusetts primary, in the Seventh District, for a Congressional seat which death had left vacant. To his district, heavily populated by French-Canadians, Poles, Germans, Irish, Italians, Syrians, Armenians, Czechs, Candidate Harrington proclaimed: "[The] sole and only issue in the campaign is the America First policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF THE NATION: Last Week of Peace | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Three Freshman, sole members of a newly formed organization, have arranged the speech, which will come after Thomas' debate with Max Lerner in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norman Thomas Talks Here Sunday | 12/11/1941 | See Source »

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