Word: soles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obviously forced, hinted at unspecified outside interests that had compelled the abandonment of a highly reasonable position. "Certain proposals, for which I have made myself responsible, . . . have become the subject of an acute controversy on a stage much wider than that of the company itself. . . . Proposals . . . made with the sole object of increasing the prosperity of the company . . . prompted by my view that the preponderating interests in our great industry should always be in British hands. ... I have always held the view that our scheme did not prejudice property rights . . . any of our shareholders . . . nothing was further from my mind...
Long one of the Treasury's best sleuths, favored by President Roosevelt as a bodyguard at Oyster Bay, Detective-Secretary Richey entered Herbert Hoover's service in Food Administration days. Bodyguarding long since ceased to be his sole function. He furnishes the Chief with a pair of extra ears as well as with vigilant eyes and brawn. When the President-Elect went to South America, Lawrence Richey was left behind to Hear Things...
Draped completely in long streamers of black were the high walls and soaring towers of the Cathėdrale de Notre Dame. Thus, with a deed, the Catholic Church received the most illustrious and possibly the most devout of her warrior sons, the sole generalissimo who ever commanded ten million men in arms, the great and humble Catholic who reviewed his victory thus: "Without claiming the intervention of a miracle, I say that when, at a moment in history, a clear view is given to a man and he finds later that that clear view has determined movements of enormous...
...that the Hanover undergraduates know who is most likely to succeed in life, what man's tailor to patronize, and whose brow in truth is the highest they can hurry back to the normalcy their self-imposed psychoanalysis interrupted. For this introspection should prove the sole lapse in the life of an otherwise healthy New Hampshire extravert. Remembering to respect the local chief of police, to elect Biblical History next semester, and to shun the study of physics like poison, Dartmouth men can get back to their favorite topic, women, women, women. When it is recalled...
...state Czeckoslovakia got the whole of Upper Hungary with more than one million Hungarians. To the newly reorganized Balkan kingdom Jugoslavia was delivered the south part of old Hungary, with Hungary's sole sea-shore and the harbor of Fiume, with about 600,000 Hungarians. And finally, Austria, Hungary's erstwhile spouse with whom she lived during the four hundred years of a very unhappy international marriage, got a bit of old Hungary with about 65,000 Hungarians. Nevertheless as is well known, because the United States Senate refused to ratify the so called Treaty of Trianon, the United States...