Word: soft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...erection of such a building affiliated with an educational institution once more confirms the assertion of thousands of non-college people today that college students are becoming "soft...
When U. S. railroads load more than 1,000,000 cars of freight in one week, as the American Railway Association reported last week for the fourth time this year, that means that commodities are moving, that business is good. The continuing bituminous (soft) coal strike and the Mississippi river basin flood have prevented more than four 1,000,000-car weeks this year...
...hearing last week President William Johnson Harahan of the C. & O. mentioned that he was trying to buy control of the Virginian Railway for $80,000,000. This is the 545-mile road that Col. Henry H. Rogers of Standard Oil built to tap the soft coal deposits at Deepwater, W. Va. It runs parallel with the C. & O. to Hampton Roads, Va. Last year the Pennsylvania, through its subsidiary, the Norfolk & Western, sought to lease the Virginian for 999 years. But the I. C. C. said no. The C. & O. may have better arguments to present before...
...Poet. Edwin Arlington Robinson ? lean, stooping figure, dark mustache, dreamer's forehead, thinker's mouth, soft hat, cane, shuns women and public speaking ? came to fame in 1905 when Theodore Roosevelt, then President, reviewed The Children of the Night, which Mr. Robinson had written in a barn at Gardiner, Me. Mr. Roosevelt secured him a position in the New York Customs House. He is now employed by Ledoux & Co. (ores) in John Street, Manhattan. On his 50th birthday (1919) a symposium of authors acclaimed him in the New York Times as greatest living U. S. poet. Twice since...
According to tradition short bats and a soft ball will be accorded the visiting nine, and all other advantages will be placed at its disposal. But as has so often been the case, matters will come to a close with the utterly and absolute visiting humorists at the disposal of the journalists...