Word: solely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smoke. The three Bremen flyers, Baron von Huenefeld, Captain Koehl, and Major Fitzmaurice, fought their way through cheering Bostonians and tangled folds of the banners of massed American legionaries from the Colonial Room of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel yesterday afternoon following the Hub's reception to the trio. The sole means of escape was by way of the hotel's rear kitchen elevator, where the besieged flyers, thinking themselves free from further annoyances, found a CRIMSON reporter who had slipped by the cordon of vigilant detectives...
John Bassett Moore has been the sole U. S. judge to sit on the august bench of the World Court since it was established in 1921. Last week he resigned, although his nine-year term would not have expired until...
Gentlemen in the throes of divisionals have been known to lose weight. So have lovers, who are supposed to dream more or less constantly about their beloved ones. But the idea of taking thought for the sole purpose of reducing weight is new. Caesar distrusted the lean man, so Shakespeare tells us, and thought him fit only for "treason, stratagems and spoils". But now he is raised in his fellow-man's estimation, and instead of a dagger in his belt he will more probably have a Phi Beta Kappa charm on his watch chain...
Thus the Cabinet squelched several persistent committees of British bondholders who have recently petitioned for aid in dunning U. S. States which were once Confederate. A chuckle rippled across the Commons, as the sole Communist M. P., famed Shapurji Saklatvala, a swarthy Indian demanded: "Does not the Under Secretary think this another case where His Majesty's Government ought to send troops of occupation to protect British interests...
...manufacture of Henry Ford to the U. S., last week found himself obliged to dispose of $4,750,000. Last year the company earned $6,500,000. After taxes and preferred dividends the $4,750,000 remained for the common stockholders. Since Mr. Morris is the company's sole common stockholder, he might have assigned himself all the sum. Instead, he ordered it applied to company surplus...