Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three older children, Jenny, Dottie and Joel, whose actions have importance in the unfolding of the story, are followed through critical phases of their lives. Jenny, soft and sweet, an expert at shoplifting marries stiff-necked Berkely Howard, a rum-runner. The idyll of their love is broken off when revenue officers shoot Berkely. Dottie is the viciously respectable member of the family. She marries a Cannel mill-worker, over steps herself in a plot to regain favor with the paternal grandmother who had disowned her father. The scene in which the cumulative effect of her underhandedness comes back...
...York, Mayor LaGuardia sought to temper his aide's sharp words with some soft ones of interpretation. Said he: "It is just a matter of the men defending themselves when they are attacked?that's what the Commissioner meant. They are working against a desperate condition. The department has lost six men in the last six months and four more are dying...
Disarmament by Publicity. Soft as the first rustle of an overture was the Draft (i. e. proposed) Treaty for the International Control of Armaments wafted to Geneva last week by President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
Like the assassins of King Alexander, Artist Vanka is a Croat. Born in Zagreb 44 years ago, he wears a soft brown beard, likes to paint in an embroidered blouse and a black trilby hat. He is easily Yugoslavia's best known portraitist. His painting is workmanlike, able...
...Casagrande found that a hard dry piece of clay when compressed becomes soft mud because clay is made up of minute mineral particles and voids filled with water. Compression gradually forces the water out, the rate of consolidation depending on the depth of the strata and the weight supported. A classic example of the subsidence is the Tower of Pisa, which furnishes fairly accurate data on the factors of weight and shape. Mistakes in foundation engineering are responsible for more damage and loss of life than all other causes combined...