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Word: solely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Restaurateur George Rector, 61, whose fillet of sole a la Marguery was worshiped by Manhattan gourmets at the turn of the century, acted as a judge in a Boy Scout cooking contest, registered exquisite anticipation when handed the winning dish-a plate of fried flounder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...brigade with two tries to his credit. Frank Jewett, Al Osgood, and Bobbie Green were responsible for three points apiece, while Captain George Ditz brought the total to 19 with a 4 point drop goal from mark. Walter Cohen reached pay dirt in the last minutes to bring the sole L. I. U. tally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Ruggers Win Fifth Straight, 19 to 3 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...Eight years ago, a full laboratory course in bio-chemistry was optimistically listed in the course announcement as Biology 4. Like prosperity, Biology 4 remained just around the corner for three long years of tantalizing billing; then retired with a unique record of never having held a class, Meanwhile, sole entry in the bio-chemistry maw has been a half-hearted, half-course stop-gap called Chemistry 15. Next year, even it is to join the ghosts of limbo, and an absolutely bare cupboard faces the hungry bio-chem. concentrator seeking a dish to correlate his unbalanced diet of biology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEN WITHOUT A COURSE | 5/3/1940 | See Source »

...seeks happiness everywhere, only to find it at home, promised splendid entertainment. But Hollywood, as it too often does, relied exclusively on lavish sets and a stupendous budget. Far from winning the children's fancy, or charming adults with gentle humor, its extravagance only cloys, and bores--with the sole exception of the storm and forest fire scene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/13/1940 | See Source »

Occasional laugh. But it is uneasy laughter. For the wicked old lady is seen debauching her young granddaughter (Joan Carroll), trying to debauch her teen-age granddaughter, Ellie May (Ginger Rogers). Their mother (Marjorie Rambeau) has become a wistful and underpaid trull, the sole support of her family and her gin-drinking scholar husband (Miles Man-der). Ellie May, a pig-tailed slum Diana, is barely saved from her mother's fate by Joel McCrea as she is racing (in a big car with her mother's ex-boy friend) toward San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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