Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Imprisoned by Minos in the labyrinth in Crete, Daedalus had fixed wings to his shoulders with wax and flown to Sicily. Had the great Hannibal been home, instead of wandering about Italy hunting for legions to defeat, they assured one another, he would have known how to adapt the solo flight to military needs. He would have flown an army in. It was clearly the only way. Wiseacres added that a day would come...
Harry James and his band rock Winsocki to its foundations-the ballroom scene demands that the spectator love the Jamesian trumpet as St. Francis loved the birds. (Harry's rendition of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee makes the old-fashioned trumpet solo sound like a first lesson in occupational therapy.) But once the maestro parks his horn and takes the floor with bouncing, pint-sized Nancy Walker for a comedy dance which is the high point of the whole proceedings...
Shades of Valentino. In various manifestations, this sort of thing has been going on all over America the last few months. Not since the days of Rudolph Valentino has American womanhood made such unabashed public love to an entertainer. It started with Frank Sinatra's first solo appearance at the Paramount theater last December, flowered when he moved on to Manhattan's Riobamba club. The press noted his impact on every woman present, recorded the phenomenon loudly and long...
Lieut. Fox-Male took part in the Battle of Britain in 1940 after having only 15 solo hours as a Spitfire pilot. Asked about his first impressions in his initial air combat, he said with an engaging grin: "Well, as it happens; I was shot down. It all happened very fast, and I didn't have time to know whether I was very excited...
George Mostow (Mathematics), Henry Pierre Noyes (Physics), Harold Pilvin (Economics), Louis Heilprin Pollak (History and Literature), Harald Anton Reiche (Classics), Cecil Jack Schneer (Geological Sciences), Harold Wondell Smith (English), William Snower, Jr. (Government), William Firth Snyder (Economics), Richard David Solo (Economics), Howard Marget Spiro (English), Ruch Eastman Welter (History and Literature...