Word: solely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situations. President Coolidge seemed exceptionally affable-save for a moment here & there (see "FESS INCIDENT")-and unwontedly loquacious-except at times such as when onetime (1919-21) Governor Henry J. Allen of Kansas talked at length about the necessity of President Coolidge's renomination. The President's sole reply to his caller's long speech was: "How's crops...
...Republican party is saturated and honeycombed with money," Senator Walsh stated. "It is directed and controlled by wealth, and its sole object is to make the men of wealth safe. Into the regulation of tariff, trusts, and interstate commerce, the present administration is throughly entrenched, supporting those men and those corporations which contribute to the party funds...
...sole possible explanation for this reversal of the laws of man and nature is that Boston's antecedents are too puritanical in the unfavorable sense, to permit even the abundance of professorships to counteract its influence. The blue laws are as yet of too deep a hue to be dissolved by any pigment, whether it be red or merely a rosy pink. So until New England has forgotten the strain of her ancestors, the persecutors of Hester Prynne, she will continue to confuse issues and to forget, the phrase on the cacutcheon--"Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense...
...section meeting in which a short quiz on assigned reading is given. Looking at Freshmen as they are and not as they ought to be it is quickly seen that the reading is done by more than the minority "who ought to be flunked anyway" for the sole purpose of passing that quiz; taken like a doze of salt instead of as food. Notes, if any are unsystematic, unimportant, and useless for review. They are probably not looked at again until the final exam Final grade "D"-disappointment because he "really worked damn had for that exam...
When asked about the powers which the institute exercises, Professor Wilson said, again quoting Mr. Croly. "The institute is, if you please, a lily in the farm yard of politics." He went on to explain that the sole purpose of the institute was to investigate and to discuss, but that no resolutions were passed and no formal decisions were made...