Word: soled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lonely man. He and his wife Zofia, a member of an old Russian Bolshevik family (purged by Stalin), live quietly in a tiny apartment in the Warsaw suburb of Praga, have no social life. A 26-year-old son, an engineer, lives in the same house. Gomulka's sole recreation: walking his dog around the block...
Died. Emil Georg Buehrle, 66, multimillionaire art collector and sole owner of Switzerland's vast armaments-making Oerlikon Machine Tool Works; of a heart attack; in Zurich. German-born Weapons-Maker Buehrle, reputedly Switzerland's richest man, got his firm blacklisted during World War II by peddling his 20-mm. antiaircraft gun to the Axis...
...firm, once one of twelve such in the state, is now the country's sole producer of paper neckpieces, but has survived where its competitors have failed only by expanding into coated papers besides collars. Now only a fifth of the company's business is in paper collars. Twelve employees out of the company's 90 make collars, "and even they aren't busy all the time," reports William B. Snow, company treasurer...
Game officials, moreover, must exercise a firm control over infractions of the rules, which cause a great many injuries each year. "Nonenforcement of the rules of the game spoils the sport, and, in some sports, the sole official may have too great a responsibility.... Perhaps the fault lies in the rules, but perhaps it is the laxity in officiating," he added...
...physician must be given the sole responsibility in determining when an athlete is physically fit for competition and when he should be removed from a game, Dr. Augustus Thorndike'17 claimed in the current Journal of the American Medical Association...