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Word: soft (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permit Cavalcade to gain confidence by winning. Cavalcade never jumps the gun at the start of a race, has good manners in the paddock, usually walks to the post with an old bay pony named Dave. He races in size 6 shoes?steel for hard tracks, aluminum for soft ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Plain Aristocrat | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...high of $31). he had another money-raising scheme up his well-tailored sleeve. He arranged to sell the other half of his new issue, 337,000 shares, to Distillers Co. Ltd., Britain's fabulous whiskey trust. The rich & noble lords of Scotch whiskeydom have a soft spot in their hearts for Mr. Porter as well as a shrewd eye for profits. Far from being a bitter competitor. National Distillers sells hundreds of cases of DCL's Scotch, helped DCL to restore its 20% dividend (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Whiskey Money | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

Biggest airplane ever built in the U. S., equally at home in air, water and on land, the 8-42 gave Pan American Airways plenty of cause for pride last week. But prouder than Pan American, was the mild, soft-spoken man who had designed and built this monster of the air out of a boyhood dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Beautiful Thing | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

Tweeds have come off the golf course into the drawing room, are now correct for tea. Reason: the informal shirt waist has been supplanted by blouses of stiff velvet, chenille, soft duvetyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Haute Couture | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

...ordered surveys for four others and completed no less than 59,680 rock, brush, bag and log dams to check soil erosion. They are spending $4,500,000 experimenting with fertilizers, millions buying power & light systems, millions financing the sale of electrical gadgets, $100,000 trying to make soft coal smokeless. They have built roads, transmission lines, a town and a tourist camp; planted 2,751,000 trees, 7,000 kudzu vines, nine tons of grass seed; started teaching elderly mountaineers trades and have generally created more hubbub than the Valley has seen since Grant took Shiloh in 1862. Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Valley Campaign | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

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