Word: soled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sole object of all these brutalities," he said, "is to annihilate French maritime power, cut off the metropolis from the Empire and isolate her from the rest of the world...
...Soaring fish prices go under Government control next week, along with eggs, onions, cheese. Sole now sells for 4s 6d (90?) a pound...
...York's Queens County Court, Judge Charles Golden recessed proceedings to halt a distracting grating noise coming from under the counsel table. The noise proved to be a house mouse (Mus musculus) calmly gnawing the sole of a newspaper reporter's shoe. Newshawk William Alexander, of the Long Island Daily Press, had been so busy he hadn't noticed. Judge Golden had the mouse caught and executed. Passing lightly over the mouse's fate, the New York Times soberly regarded Newshawk Alexander, praised his powers of concentration, added: "He approaches his duties with single-mindedness...
...broadest boundaries. The kingdom had an Adriatic coastline running from Fiume to Split and thrust inland almost to Belgrade. Croatian provincials have never forgotten that. Said the nationalistic Croatiapress in 1937: "Dalmatia, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Slavonia and Croatia ... are pure Croatian provinces and the Croatian people have the sole right to them...
Leaning too heavily on the glass covering which sheltered the exhibits an over-zealous Biology D student had come out of his daze to find himself staring at an equally wide and glassy-eyed speciman of early American lobster. "Pardon me," was his sole comment. "Think nothing of it," replied his victim...