Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about to scale! Tenacious memoirs will recollect that toy booklet which appeared last fall, so scholarly in its denatured, so anxiously emulous of its elder brethren. A column of humor painted the Lampoon's lily an article on Harvard indifference fairly stole Mother Advocate's bustle, and in a soft, artistic way, other pundits refined the dross from the Graduate's Magazine. The editors were not lacking in brilliance, but, are gratia artis, they eschewed such fundamental principles of journalism as might have gained them a wide and interested public. Journalism curdled their aesthetics, and the Parnassine fluid of their...
...heartily in favor of it." But those of them who had seen the design of his new club shuddered in their seats. Old Weapons, The arms with which, to date, Senator Wagner has fought his battle are comparatively simple. His National Labor Board, founded last August during the soft coal strike, was supplemented by miniature offspring called Regional Labor Boards of which 18, with some 250 voluntary members, now exist. Their job is to sift labor complaints on the spot, turn back trifling ones to NRA Compliance officers, hold hearings on others, try by conciliation to prevent them from growing...
...stroll on Bolinas Beach, north of the Golden Gate, one afternoon last fortnight went Alf Harrodon, 33-year-old radio operator. Striding along with head in air he stumbled on something soft. Looking down, he saw a large mass of greyish stuff, mottled and opaque. In his hands it felt and smelled like limburger cheese...
...dealings with the people in the small town in which he lives are cold-hearted and unethical. But a young man who is employed as a teller in his bank learns of his concealed sympathy for the poor, and realizes that underneath a hard crust he really has a soft heart. Because of his poor financial standing, the boy hesitates to propose marriage to a wealthy girl with whom he is deeply in love. Upon the advice of the horse trader, the young man places all his money on a horse the girl has entered in a race. The film...
...soft-eyed young rabbits, all dark grey, hopped nonchalantly about their pen in Harvard's Laboratory of General Physiology last week as many a biologist discussed their twisted pedigree. They were living evidence of what two experimenters had reported as "the first certain demonstration that mammalian eggs can be fertilized in vitro...