Word: solely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the Times his sole interest was the Washington National Guard, which he made one of the best in the country. Gruff, bombastic, generous to his employes, he was famed for his feuding. Once, in 1926, he engaged the late Colonel William Mitchell in violent debate on the future of airplanes. He said that Mitchell made an ass of himself in declaring that planes would decide the next war, that Mitchell's prophecy that troops would be carried to battle by air was a "howling joke...
...appear to be the worst kind of a hypocrite, and to straighten that out. I would like to say that there was no support from me of the editorial in The Dartmouth of October 21. As perhaps is the case in your paper, the editor-in-chief is the sole judge on editorial policy, where there is a conflict. As it happened, the editorial of October 21 was one with which I did not agree...
Though professional historians pay no heed to such tales, Alley and his cohorts can point to some circumstantial facts: Lincoln was moody and silent when questioned about his birth; his own word is the sole authority for his accepted birth date, Feb. 12, 1809; because it acknowledged but did not deny rumors of bastardy, the first edition of Herndon's biography was suppressed...
...school game). At Princeton he was famed as Intercollegiate diving champion, football cheerleader and one of the prettiest girls in the pony ballet of the 1914-15 Triangle shows. But from the sidelines he studied football objectively, laid the groundwork of a profound pigskin knowledge. That is not the sole reason he was the most sought-after referee in the business...
...their way into life careers. Professor Casner's office, which dispenses advice on opportunities in the armed forces and in some defense industries, in no way functions as an employment bureau. Most of the nation's large industries, and businesses-including those which produce for defense-have representatives whose sole duties are to contact promising college graduates. They have already begun to inquire when they can stop in at Harvard this year to interview prospects in the '42 crop of grads, but no agency exists now that will bring employer and employee together. The University's verdict is that...