Search Details

Word: soft (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...quick to submit any doubtful work to the local party official. This gives the Nazis all the control they need. Book News (published in Berlin) now prints a green flimsy supplement headed "Expert Opinion." In one section are listed books to push, and in the other books to soft-pedal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blood-thinking | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...when she arose this morning there was a soft tint over the quiet waves to the cast. To the west, toward the mainland, the hills stood out clear said fainaly blue. There was no movement in the air. Breathing it was like walking through a field of violets, the sweetness hardened a little with the salty smell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Jersey about the Fourth of July. Blue Marlin are plentiful in the summer (from late June) at Bimini, B. W. I., famed fishing paradise of the Atlantic. There the world's record 636-pounder was boated in 1935. Broadbill, fishing for which is most difficult (because its soft mouth is hard to hook and harder to keep hooked), and most expensive (because many fruitless attempts make boat hire costly), migrate as far north as Cape Breton, N. S., where a 601-pounder, a North American record,* was caught three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Seaboarders | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...smug husbands that if they want to hold their wives, they had better come across with some of the little niceties that ladies appreciate. Mr. Harrison has a lot of fun teaching them their lesson, and so does the audience, if you like attempted seduction in an atmosphere of soft music, low lights, and exquisitely cut dinner jackets. Mr. Harrison's technique would make even a Princeton senior squirm with envy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 5/25/1939 | See Source »

HARLAN, Ky.--The Black Mountain Corporation, operating two soft coal mines at Kenvir, Ky., today signed a union shop contract involving 1,150 men with the United Mine Workers of America...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 5/24/1939 | See Source »

Previous | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | Next