Word: lonely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lone cell in the grey prison building, was bitter with a special German kind of bitterness. Granted a stay of execution, Otto Striegel snapped: "Why wasn't I hanged with my comrades...
...premium business through the manufacture of ornaments for reservation Indians, who sold them to tourists as examples of native handicraft. While Leavens was Robbins' district sales manager in Chicago, he got an order to make similar trinkets for the Wrigley Co. A radio character named "Chief Wolfpaw, the Lone Wolf," sent them out for gum wrappers. Wrigley's was so snowed under with wrappers that it has never offered premiums since. But Robbins went on to become the biggest maker of box-top trinkets. From these and its other products (jewelry, name plates, badges and emblems) Robbins grosses...
...Professor Whiting immersed himself in graduate work. He became an assistant and Tutor in English and attained the rank of full professor last December. The author of numerous books on Chaucer, his specialty, and dissertations on the proverb as an expression of folk thought, Professor Whiting looks on his lone venture in anthology work with horror. "I'll never do anything like that again," he says of his co-editorship of the College Survey of English Literature, which includes most of the reading for English...
...Crimson scored its lone run in the fifth on two walks, an infield out, and John Coppinger's fly to right field...
Brown's team whipped through all three opponents in the matches at the Winchester Country Club, and thereby upset pre-game predictions that the Crusaders would be the only squad for the Crimson to worry about. Holy Cross's lone win was a 6 to 3 tally over the Techmen, who could not engineer a single victory in the tourney...