Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than as a toiling mass all in the same economic boat. To develop class consciousness among workers, to convince them that they have no worthwhile chance of becoming capitalists is one of Nominee Thomas' primary aims in each campaign. Likewise the international quality of true Socialism has to be soft-pedalled in this country which dreads even the semblance of "foreign control...
...Heart Stand to oppose thy might and power, At last surrender to Cupid's feather'd Dart, And now lays bleeding every h-o-u-r In deluding slee pings let my Eyelids close, That in an enraptured d-r-e-a-m I may, In a soft lulling sleep and gentle re pose, Possess those joys denied...
...were but 16.5% of capacity whereas they must be 35% to 40% to earn the preferred dividend, Wall Street assumed that when the Board meets Oct. 25, two weeks before Election Day, the preferred dividend will be passed for the first time in the company's history. In a soft voice, hard-faced Mr. Taylor said that payments of dividends plus losses have resulted in reducing Steel's surplus $73,000,000 in a year. "It is apparent." he said, "that we are at the mercy of business just like any other corporation." From operations alone. Steel lost...
...more singles match and Vines was almost sure to get it against von Cramm. For the doubles, the Bouhana courts were slower than ever, after a heavy rain, but it made no difference to Allison & Van Ryn who have played abroad long enough to know all about soft French courts and slow French tennis balls.* Aided by superb teamwork and Prenn's double faults, they won what turned out to be the deciding match in straight sets?...
...officers made one more sortie. In the darkness they saw five pairs of gleaming eyes. Occasionally their pipes came in contact with bodies soft and active, but not another cat could they catch. So into their wagon they piled, carefully avoiding their 31 captive cats, putted off to the pound. Widow Dornsife spoke soothingly to her five remaining pets, struck a match, lit a lamp...