Word: solely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Complete rest has been decreed by medical authorities as the sole cure for the fleet captain's injured leg. The injured member was not aggravated in the Penn game, but his activity in the contest retarded all normal improvement. It is hoped that the layoff will get him in shape for the invasion of Princeton...
...Sole remaining feature of the old magazine is the St. Nicholas League, a department for child contributors. Started in 1900, the League published early stories, poems and drawings by Robert Benchley, Stephen Vincent Benét, Robert Edmond Jones, Edna St. Vincent Millay...
Short, baldish, kindly Bishop Sheil last week was sworn, by a judge, as a corporation sole-a one-man holding company authorized, by act of the Illinois Legislature, to run Chicago's Catholic affairs. Appointed interim head of the archdiocese by its board of consultors, the bishop may serve six months or more, for the Vatican takes its time about filling important posts. Chicago-born, an able pitcher 33 years ago at St. Viator's College, dynamic Bishop Sheil became a diocesan official 15 years ago, has been a bishop for ten. His fame is more than local...
...fitting eulogy of a glorious ruling House whose power is no more, comes Bertita Harding's Imperial Twilight, a stirring account of the lives of Karl and Zita of Hapsburg. Purposely avoiding more than a bare outline of the historical and political background, the author focuses almost her sole attention on the ill starred war-time rulers, struggling valiantly to hold together a tottering empire, whose collapse the outbreak of that first world conflagration rendered inevitable...
...Representatives of one of the oldest and most famous institutions of its kind in the world" (obviously the Bank of England) revealed to news correspondents, as the results of a two-year search, that all the top men in A. Hitler & Co., with the sole exception of A. Hitler, long ago took care to deposit fortunes and take out big insurance policies outside of Germany. Hermann GÖring, Rudolf Hess, Paul Joseph Goebbels, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Robert Ley, Heinrich Himmler and Julius Streicher were all specifically named.* The total of their holdings was categorically fixed...