Word: soles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...founders continued their devoted and untiring work. For three years Arthur Gilman, as secretary of the "Harvard Annex," as it soon came to be called, was sole executive officer of "The Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women by Professors and Other Instructors of Harvard College...
...House, always jumpy about its constitutional prerogatives, stirred with plans for refusing to accept the Senate's farm bill, for refusing even a conference to reconcile differences between it and the House's measure. The Constitution gives the House sole power to initiate revenue legislation. Many a House leader considered the Senate's Debenture plan a revenue item because it would affect tariff income. The Senate countermoved by planning to insert the Debenture Plan in the Tariff Bill when that comes up from the House...
...never been a sin at Harvard to think for oneself and in the particularly violent times directly following the war, many politically unorthodox professors found their sole defense in the President's office. Harvard men were to be allowed the right to hear both sides of a question even if one of these sides were branded as high treason by a majority of alumni. Of all the achievements which the last twenty years have seen-in Cambridge perhaps the greatest is this sturdy maintenance of an honored tradition of rugged Yankee independence...
...Jerusalem is the holiest place in the world of Jewry: the Wailing Wall, sole remnant, it is said, of the silently-built temple of Solomon. Here, too, for Christians to worship, is the empty tomb of Christ, and for Mohammedan Arabs, the Coffin of Mohammed, studded with 17 gold nails...
...field, and growth of the cartel is reflected in prosperity at Frankfort. Prominence of Germany in the international chemical field is shown by the fact that cartel representatives, meeting in Paris, last week allotted 74% of the export trade to Germany, 17% to France and 8% to Switzerland. Sole check to cartel plans was the failure to bring Britain's chemical industry into the cartel structure, but cartel leaders trust that they will eventually be able to overcome the British tradition of individualism which has thus far made the United Kingdom a conspicuous exception to the prevailing cartel trend...