Word: soling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill Brown in the B backfield who bore the brunt of the shock troops' sole successful sally. Following a 17-yard dash, Brown carried again in from the 11 for the score. Frazier Curtis place-kicked for the extra point...
...radio speech, old Senator Borah served notice that Franklin Roosevelt could expect no Blitzkrieg victory over Congress: "The only matter of difference ... is the sole question of whether we shall sell arms or not sell arms." Quickly Clark and Vandenberg followed this line, insisting it would be unneutral now, with war under way, to revise U. S. law to favor one set of belligerents against another. It was obvious that one serious display of over-caginess on the President's part could ruin his chances of success...
...British censors who were holding up its cables. In an editorial the Times said: "This newspaper will, as far as possible, make plain the sources of its news dispatches. It will not print rumors as fact." Same day the Times announced that it had at last abandoned its sole reliance on Associated Press (of which it was a founder) and its own men, to complete its war coverage had taken United Press service as well...
...anti-foreign movement rampant in China last week was very different. It burned low, and from the outside. Even the stupidest coolie knew that its sole purpose was to drive out white foreigners so that yellow foreigners could inherit the fat of the land. In each of last week's anti-foreign incidents the Japanese mailed fist was either bare or clenched within a Chinese glove...
Soon as the Tribune had its story ready, it got a statement from the bishop. He denounced the "scandal mongers [who] have spoken of me as though my sole friends are publicans and sinners. That is, I am proud to say, true! I have no friends so self-respecting that they are in need of no repentance. . . . Why whisper and use . . . innuendo! Why not be forthright and say, as I frankly say ... that Mrs. Ablewhite and I have been at the Chez Paree, which we have enjoyed, and to other restaurants where shows have been as good...