Word: solely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...runners-up in the Sophomore Competition. These two men, as Juniors, have active jobs with regard to their respective teams; and, as Seniors, they become the Senior Managers in charge of Junior Varsity and Freshman Football (excluding the last two weeks of the Freshman Season, which are under the sole control of the newly appointed Freshman Manager...
...night boxes and gambling joints of France were Ahmad's sole passion. When he left Persia he took an alleged $200,000,000 worth of jewels with him; gave an Oriental carnival for the whole town of Nice which lasted a week, and every night banqueted a thousand guests. On every damsel who tickled his fancy he bestowed a handful of precious stones. In 1930, aged 32, Ahmad died of cirrhosis. Gossip said that he had a liver like an old Spanish saddle. Provision for eight wives was made in his will (executed by Manhattan's Guaranty Trust...
...would get more U.S. planes quicker, whose ferry pilots would be released for combat. It pleased the U.S., which would achieve a preliminary security by getting air bases flanking Dakar. It pleased Pan Am, which now needed only a Cairo-to-Singapore link to have the basis of the sole round-the-world postwar airline...
...dizzy weeks of needling, wheedling, probing, recommending and arguing, the 50-year-old trouble shooter had succeeded handsomely in administering to Free China's sole remaining commercial traffic vein a much-needed shot of adrenalin. Tonnage of U.S. and British war materials hauled through Burma to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's anxious people had more than doubled, promised to reach, then exceed the Road's original estimated capacity of 30,000 tons a month...
There are five such castles in Germany; a student spends a year in each one. He must study Nazi ideology, languages, history, skiing, riding, golf, other social graces, must learn to fly. Near each castle is a girls' center whose sole function is to entertain the boys...