Word: solely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Achievement. The sole international achievement of the Council, before it adjourned, last week, was to secure slightly higher rank for Judges of the World Court...
Dictator Stalin, scorning to toy even rhetorically with such questions as "Shall we turn back?" outlined a forward looking four-year program. Keynotes: 1) Larger importations of tractors and farm machinery; 2) Devotion of huge State grain farms to the sole purpose of producing an exportable surplus; 3) Education of the peasants to rotate crops and produce a surplus even above full-to-bursting tummy needs; 4) Speeding up of production by urban workers of goods desired by the peasants but not yet available to them in quantities or at prices sufficiently tempting to seduce canny husbandmen into raising...
Somewhere in the makeup of the most efficient and energetic American is a weakness for parades and few obligations will keep him from stopping to watch one go by. Yet often processions that are arranged for his sole benefit meet with the most complete neglect, as witness the substantial deficit remaining to Mr. Pyle after the completion of his cross country "bunion derby". In Nebraska another attempted parade has just fallen through. This time it is the calvacade of indignant farmers in autos that was expected to descend upon Kansas City and impress upon the Republican Convention gathered there...
...spirited ladies. Louis XIV being his favorite monarch, he now weaves around this "Sun King's" favorite hunting companion a somewhat laborious tale of French colonization in Quebec, complete with bloody Indian skirmishes and pious persecution of heretics. As for love interest, 8-year-old Countess Palladine, the sole survivor of a lurid Turkish massacre, is rescued thrillingly by a young English freelancer. Her gratitude very shortly develops into precocious passion, which brings her to him years later in the New World. Author Chambers bases his tale on contemporary chronicles...
...sense of its dependence on them. Nowhere might the danger of divided responsibility and confused commands be more fatal. These dangers the appointment of Mr. Bailey to his new positions may confidently he expected to obviate. Mr. Bailey's extensive experience in newspaper writing and editing combined with the sole responsibility given him for the work he has undertaken may furthermore be taken as an assurance of continuity, coordination and care in the entire publication work of the University...