Word: soling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion like this originated in a desire of graduates having sons in college or preparatory schools to spend the day with them in Cambridge and become acquainted with the buildings, atmosphere, and life here. Several classes in the early 1900's conceived the idea of having committees appointed whose sole work was that of keeping track of the rising children among the members of the class. When the time was ripe for any son of a graduate to enter college, it was the duty of this committee to get in touch with the father of the boy, and to ascertain...
...airlines carrying passengers only lost money last year. Such operators have been hanging on with the sole hope of acquiring mail contracts. Last week Pickwick Latin-American Airways Inc. found its burden too great, suspended its service between Los Angeles, Mexico City and San Salvador. Other U. S.-Mexico airlines: Compania Mexicana de Aviacion (subsidiary of U. S.-owned Pan American Airways, Inc.) and Corporacion Aeronautica de Transportes ("CAT lines") which connects with domestic routes at El Paso and Brownsville...
...with the device later when he saw one of the "blue" Army planes plunge to earth in real trouble, followed by a floating parachute. Roberts dashed off a map showing the wreck, flashed it to headquarters. The man with the parachute (he landed safely) was Lieut. Irving A. Woodring, sole survivor of the Army's famed "Three Musketeers" flying team. Lieuts. W. L. Cornelius and J. J. Williams, his onetime partners, were killed in California two years ago (TIME...
...record), many companies have been experimenting with the photography of sound on the film itself. A new sound-on-film process worked out by Inventor Theodore Nakken, president of Nakken Corp., discards the use of a slit device for limiting the area of photographic sound on a film. Claiming sole rights to this method, and also to the sound-on-film device which employs the slit (Fox Movietone, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, RKO, Paramount), Nakken Corp. has requested an adjudication of patents from the U. S. Patent Office. Last week Warner Brothers-following their policy of pioneering with picture patents-bought...
...Royal Highness Elizabeth Duchess of York, sole daughter-in-law of George V, King & Emperor, mother of "P'incess Lilybet" (sole granddughter), cancelled all her summer engagements. If male, her next infant will be third in succession to Britain's throne...