Word: solely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile numerous crass Britishers blatantly proclaimed their entire ignorance concerning the Order of St. John. Promptly they were informed that it is the sole survivor of the many knightly orders established during the Crusades. A well supported legend ascribes its foundation to Pope Gregory the Great (540-604), who established numerous hospices in the Holy Land. After the capture of Jerusalem in 1099, the Order of St. John the Baptist at that place became the cradle of the numerous orders of St. John of Jerusalem, of which a still surviving offshoot exists in England, Germany, Italy, Silesia...
...Senator Felix Jules Meline, 87, dean of French Parliamentarians, Premier during the period of the famed Dreyfus scandal, known as "The McKinley of France" on account of his indefatigable championship of the protective tariff. The passing of M. Meline, it was observed, leaves M. Clémenceau as practically the sole survivor of the group of great French statesmen who were in at the death of the Second Empire and waited as youthful accoucheurs upon the birth of the Third Republic...
...purpose today, is to confine my remarks to the sole question of what is the relationship of this tribunal, to which we are asked to adhere or become a member, to the political institution known as the League of Nations...
...Augustus E. John; the French by Camille Mauclair, critic. At the time of the death of her husband, the late Edward H. Harriman, Mrs. Harriman was called "the richest and most important business woman in the world. In one of the briefest wills ever filed, he made her sole executrix of $140,000,000. None of the five Harriman children received a penny. Mrs. Harriman was careful in the education of the children. She had them taught to ride as soon as they could toddle, and never let them understand, until they reached years of discretion, that their father...
...airs until it became bigger than the whole, they would have taken due precautions to keep the usurper in his place. But they did not see. And in consequence, college football has now reached the point where many persons worship it as the acme of college purpose, as the sole standard of the merit of colleges...