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Word: solely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard will take the floor tomorrow a much better team than started against Tufts last week. Hocus-pocus at the Dean's Office has taken Dean Hennessy, captain and sole veteran in playing condition, off language pro, and a week of practice has polished the rough diamond somewhat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMP THOMAS OPPOSES HOOPSTERS TOMORROW | 12/10/1943 | See Source »

Shellac has been a critical material ever since the war cut supplies from India, virtually its sole producer. Shellac has unique properties as a protective finish, and none of its many substitutes has been quite satisfactory. But last week a new product was announced that seems to solve the shellac problem. It is called Zinlac and can be made cheaply from U.S. corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shellac Substitute | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...question: Is insurance commerce? is now of prime importance to the $5.8 billion fire insurance industry. After 75 years of freedom from Federal regulation, the fire underwriters face an antitrust action, now before the U.S. Supreme Court, against which virtually their sole defense is that insurance is not interstate commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE,AVIATION: Manipulation | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

Back to '28. The Republican swing hit hard. Frank Hague's corrupt Jersey gang took a crushing blow in the mazard; the wreckage of Tammany Hall is strewn over Manhattan. Sole potent Democratic city machine left, outside the Solid South, is Ed Kelly's Chicago juggernaut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: Ground Swell | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...Republican swath cut deep, down to the grass roots. Outstanding and almost sole noncasualty: Cleveland's popular Democratic Mayor Frank J. Lausche. Hartford, Conn. (pop. 166,267) threw out its Democratic mayor after eight years. Plattsburg, N.Y. (pop. 16,351), a tiny Democratic island in the vast upstate New York G.O.P. sea, got its first Republican mayor in 14 years. And the G.O.P. picked up the only two Congressional by-elections, in Pennsylvania and New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: Ground Swell | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

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