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Word: soft (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...delighted that Harvard voted for universal military service nearly three to one. If we do not prepare our giant, but soft and lazy, strength we shall become the China of the occident, and meet the disaster we shall have richly earned. THEODORE ROOSEVELT...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOSEVELT COMMENDS SUPPORT OF UNIVERSAL TRAINING. | 2/2/1917 | See Source »

Smith Halls won the interdormitory hockey championship for the third consecutive year yesterday afternoon by defeating Standish 3 to 1. The game was slowed up by rather soft ice, and the feeling ran so high that several penalties were inflicted. Nevertheless there was plenty of good individual playing especially by Captain Newton of Smith and Captain Tibbetts and Dickson of the losers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMITH WINS DORMITORY TITLE | 1/26/1917 | See Source »

...that it bears favorable comparison with the famous Arezzo frescoes, and of the color he said, he should be at a loss to point to any other. Italian work that is of a color at once so powerful and yet neither warm nor cold, but fused in a manner soft as harmonious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRANCESCA PAINTING NOW ON EXHIBITION IN FOGG MUSEUM | 12/20/1916 | See Source »

Could co-education go farther than that? President, Mason was afraid that it might. He has therefore issued an order officially "canning" the aforesaid Cupid Person, and warning all interested parties that "spooning, queening, fussing, lallygagging, soft-soaping and mashing" will no longer be tolerated. --Boston Perald

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Cupid College," | 12/13/1916 | See Source »

Owing to a mistake made by one of the CRIMSON reporters an article was published in yesterday's edition stating that the Class of 1918 had voted to have ginger ale and other soft drinks at its smokers instead of beer and cider. The result of the post card ballots sent out by the class officers shows that there were only 12 votes against beer and that the large majority of the class were in favor of having ginger ale and other soft drinks in place of cider, while beer was to be served as usual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1918 NOT TO ABOLISH BEER | 12/8/1916 | See Source »

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