Word: soled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Irving J. Levine, tight-lipped president of K & L Beverage Co., told how he and Beck sweet-talked St. Louis' Anheuser-Busch into giving Levine's company the sole distributorship of Budweiser in Seattle, and later in other areas of Beck's domain of Washington and Alaska. Then, said Levine, Dave Beck Jr. and a partner each put up $24,500 for a total of 49% interest in K & L, and Dave Jr. became vice president of the company. Two years later, Mrs. Dave Beck Sr. paid Levine $40,000 for a 40% interest...
...especially as it affects the exceptional scholar. In our graduate schools, Lowell wrote, "we have developed into a mass production of mediocrity." Elsewhere, arguing more specifically in favor of a Society of Fellows, he said, "I do not want to depreciate the Ph.D., but to diminish it as the sole road to teaching in an institution of higher learning. Nor do I wish to diminish the study for the Ph.D., but to provide an alternative path more suited to the encouragement of the rare and independent genius...
Cushing coolly sailed up to the log barrier, examined it, then spun the wheel and headed across the river in order to get speed enough to drive the launch up over the logs. He came surging back in a hail of musket fire that tore off the sole of his left shoe and ripped out the back of his uniform. The boat breasted the logs and hung suspended, just 10 ft. from the muzzle of one of the ironclad's 8-in. guns. Carefully, Cushing lowered the torpedo into position and gently pulled the 25-ft. line that released...
...said that the general empirical principle that meaningful verbal expressions must be analysable in terms of experience has been incorrectly identified with the proposition that analysis is the sole function of philosophy...
...player may date the Queen, for she is the sole property of the captain of the winning team at the Saturday night dance. However, there is a comment at the end of the instructions that each player receives on his arrival at the hotel which reads, "There is no law prohibiting you from dating any member of the Queen's court...