Word: soft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Members of Britain's nether classes often refer collectively to those above as "Them." Enviously they know that a man child born to "Them" can take the soft path that leads through Oxford or Cambridge and then on to Place & Power. Such a scion of "Them" is David George Brownlow Cecil, Lord Burghley, 23, who ran through Cambridge as a track star, and was appointed last week a Justice of the Peace at Peterborough...
...applied to a pile of carefully prepared faggots. The faggots went up in a cloud of smoke and flame; Krish-namurti's disciples, of whom a thousand sat upon the slope of the hill, drew a breath of wonder-and listened while their leader spoke to them in a soft voice...
...German State Railways officially announced, last week, for submission to the Reichstag a project to abolish 1st & 4th class railway cars. The residual 2nd & 3rd class cars will be redesignated "soft" & "hard," if the Reichstag approves, thus abolishing class distinctions which are felt to be inappropriate in the democratic German Republic...
...soft" & "hard" nomenclature for railway cars was first introduced, as everyone knows, in Soviet Russia...
...soft-sheed but sternsouled guardians who prowl the purlieus of the examination rooms, their cost for the past two semesters of 1926-27 amounted to $3.053.50. The monitors' price, if may be seen, approaches very nearly three times the stationery expense. Some rapid calculation demonstrates the entire outlay as $5.316.35 per College annum...