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Word: soles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paraguay is among the world's most backward lands. Her yearly exports and imports approximately balance at the trifling figure of $14,000,000. Rivers are the only important highways. The sole famed landed proprietor is Tex Rickard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: On the Map | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Kernel of the speech was yet another thought. The President-Reject said: "While it is true that every party must adhere to its fundamental principles, obstruction and blockade for the sole purpose of embarrassing the party in power are not calculated to promote the best interests of the country. It would be regarded as a constructive achievement if the Democratic party at Washington were to formulate a program, adopt it, offer it to the Congress of the United States and there defend it. A refusal on the part of the party in power to accept it or their inability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: President-Reject | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...City is a great big mouse trap for boys and girls away from home. It has some cleve post-Ufa photography and a lot of heavy breathing around the hapless Miss Carroll to drum up interest but it's no use, no one's killed, and that blights the sole hope of the spectators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

...acquaintance with languaged of other nations? Or if this angle of the subject is too remote to penetrate the recesses of your obtuse reuses, then consider but the economic aspect. Have you no hearts? Would'st rob our struggling instructors in French and German of their sole means of livelihood? Vision a typical pathetic case it your diabolical propaganda were allowed to take root, which God forbid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I Can't Give You Anything But Love | 11/13/1928 | See Source »

...Pennsy is not sole in its extensive plans. The New York Central a few months ago consulted with General Electric to electrify its tracks along the Hudson River from Manhattan towards Albany, and mayhap to Buffalo. And practically every other large system has plans, more or less detailed, in the same vein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Electrified Pennsy R. R. | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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