Word: soled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a one man contingent in the traditional Class Day parade yesterday. Its sole member was Charles Norman Fay '69, one of the oldest living alumni...
...Thus the port of Dunkirk was held open. When it was found impossible for the Armies of the north to reopen their communications through Amiens with the main French Armies, only one choice remained. It seemed, indeed, a forlorn hope. The Belgian and French Armies were almost surrounded. Their sole line of retreat was to a single port and its neighboring beaches. They were pressed on every side by heavy attacks and were far outnumbered...
More than nominally interested in aviation is the biggest U. S. motormaker: General Motors Corp. Holder of 30% of the outstanding stock of North American Aviation, Inc. (military planes) and 19% of Bendix Aviation Corp. (aircraft accessories), it is also sole proprietor of the big Allison plant, where G. M. engineers are working with might & main to get the U. S. Air Corps's only liquid-cooled aircraft engine into mass production...
Conscription has the sole advantage of preparing the country for future contingencies. Against this must be set the many trenchant disadvantages of the plan. The first and most important is that inauguration of military training would be the biggest possible stride towards participation in the present European war. A huge army is unnecessary for hemisphere defense at present and would only serve to raise the military mentality to the ascendency. A natural concomitant of conscription would be the breeding of a fatalistic attitude. War would take on, for the American people, an inevitability which it does not merit. The American...
Planist Freddy Slack, besides doing arrangements and fumadiddling around with various of the boogie-woogie passages, is playing more plane than I have never heard him to before, and with the really terrific clarinet and trumpet takeoff men in the band, sole ideas are pretty well taken care...