Word: solely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, the Chamber of Commerce's "When the Lights Go On Again Committee" (TIME, Aug. 16), formed for the sole purpose of celebrating this moment in history, was caught flat-footed with no plans for a suitably gala ceremony...
...first alternated in both roles); he got his first movie job because Cecil B. De Mille heard him spouting Hamlet as he tramped Hollywood Boulevard looking for work. For his present nationwide venture, Carradine sold his yacht and mortgaged his house. He is his own producer, director and sole owner as well as star. Says he: "That's the only way to do Shakespeare, for good or evil, so that it hangs together. If this goes over," he vows, "I'm through with Hollywood forever...
...that draft boards may get unsporting ideas. A dozen players are 4Fs; one is an ex-sailor who survived two sinkings and 14 days in an open boat. Unique among pro footballers is Danny Fortmann of Colgate, a crack guard for the Bears. He is the League's sole Phi Beta Kappa...
Lucky Private. In Pocatello, Idaho, the sole survivor of a plane crash was Private John J. Lucky...
Father had one unfortunate tendency-a deep hatred of small boys. He was always threatening to shoot them, "had converted the police department into an agency whose sole occupation seemed to be the jailing of these children." When Halloween came around, children vengefully hurled vegetables at the Sousa windows. One Halloween Father decided to put a stop...