Word: solely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women into the workaday world has receded. Industry is not stationary; had women shown themselves to possess the necessary skill and the inclination to retain their place in it they could not have been replaced so easily. . . . Even a feminist must be aware that the reason, and the sole reason, why women have retained any hold on such posts is economic. They are permitted to do a man's work because they do it more cheaply. The reason they are able to sell their labor at a lower price is because women in general receive a measure of protection...
Stocks tumbled down on the exchanges in London, Paris, Berlin and Brussels, last week, to register a total loss of more than $50,000,000. Sole reason: uncertainty had arisen as to the whereabouts of Belgium's richest Jew, M. Le Capitaine Alfred Loewenstein...
...song was heard, last week, issuing from the capacious lungs of Jesse Holman Jones, 100 per cent Houstonian, who had dazzled the eyes of the Democratic Party to which he promised wealth unaccustomed and unhoped for, on the sole condition that the 1,089 delegates, together with their alternatives, wives and bosses, should convene at Houston to nominate a candidate for the President of the United States. Capitalist Jones had built the bower. He was ready for his love...
...Order of Pins IX intended fittingly to reward noble and conspicuous deeds meritorious before the Church and stimulating in their effect upon society; conferred also upon non-Catholics. Sole U. S. member is James Joseph Phelan of Boston, created Knight Commander...
...Sole Democratic organ in a Vare-ridden city, the Philadelphia Record last week passed from the control of the Wanamaker family into the capable hands of Editor-Publisher J. David Stern, owner of the Evening Courier and the Morning Post of Camden, N. J., 42-year-old veteran of newspaper battles from Seattle, Wash., to Providence, R. I. Like the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (see above), the Record goes to a local boy. "New ownership," observed Mr. Stern, briefly, "implies no change in editorial policy...