Word: soled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roosevelt court, later shifted to a more conservative position under the New Deal; of a heart attack; at his home near Phoenixville, Pa. Plainspoken, scholarly Owen Roberts won fame as prosecutor in the 1924 Teapot Dome scandal, was named to the high court by Herbert Hoover, eventually became the sole non-Roosevelt appointee. A lifelong Republican and anti-isolationist, he headed the controversial 1942 Pearl Harbor Report board that exonerated the Roosevelt Administration of blame for unpreparedness. after his retirement devoted much of his time to fostering support for a political union of democratic nations. His favorite judicial maxim, drawn...
...officials are taking sole credit for every major technical achievement. Party chiefs, rather than scientific experts, boss Red China's biggest projects, e.g., the taming of the Hwai River, with a resulting emphasis on hand labor rather than new machines. Concludes the M.I.T. survey: "It is a sad day for the 'bourgeois scientists,' who must sit inactively watching the wastefulness of the Communist method of organizing masses to perform unskilled tasks...
Noah Had Three Sons. In 1880 young Anton was 20 and all but the sole support of a threadbare clan of eight. His grocer father was too broke to keep his family in staples. His two older brothers were swaggering Moscow bohemians. No prig himself, Anton can confess: "I was so drunk all the time that I took bottles for girls, and girls for bottles...
Cocil A. Roberts, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, will direct the program and become sole head of the Department July first, when Irving B. Parkhurst, Director of Buildings and Grounds, retires...
...Churchill sent to Molotov last July 4: "I have not had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Malenkov or, as far as I can remember from the war years, any of your political colleagues . . . Would it appeal to you ... if we met in a friendly fashion, without agendas, for the sole purpose of trying to find a sensible way of living side by side? I beg to be informed about what you and your friends think about it." Molotov replied: "We think such a friendly contact could help." But first Geneva, then the Paris accords, intervened. The proposal petered...