Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Policemen's nightsticks thudded in the dark. Growing momentarily, the crowd surged down the street to the Strand. Crash! Down came the advertising displays. Back & forth between the Strand and the Palace shuttled the mob. Someone had a crate of eggs. Others bombarded the police with hard cinders, soft, squashy fruit. Badgered policemen drew their pistols, spattered the pavement with bullets. Perhaps students, too, had pistols. One bullet ricocheted into the leg of Edward Nabors, 36, as he skirted the mob on his way home from the library. A blackjack sent another youth to the hospital for three days...
...soft light of the Cambridge observatory recently, Leon Campbell, Pickering Memorial Astronomer, revealed that the new star, Nova Herculis, as an even chance to break the endurance record, now held by the Nova...
...whole structure of society. Prevailing wages for public works would mean direct competition for labor with private industry, still desperately struggling to make both ends meet. More than enough government jobs have been handed out to demonstrate conclusively that they are usually sinecures, compared to regular industrial positions. With soft government berths in the offing, labor will leave private industry. The question has only two facets, Vote "yes" to the amendment if socialization is the aim; "no", if some hopes for private initiative are treasured...
...persuaded to cash in on her fame by appearing at a night club. She does and her casual manner makes her a sensation. After another crack at the Englishman she returns to the newshawk and popcorn. It's all rather simple, wholesome and amusing--worth the trip across the soft receptiveness of the Common...
...fight a four-round bout against Heavyweight Champion Max Baer in the Chicago Stadium. Instead of treating the affair as a friendly exhibition, Champion Baer insulted King Levinsky when they met before the fight, affronted him further by insisting on dangerous 6 oz. fighting gloves instead of the soft 8-oz. ones customary in exhibition fights...