Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Housebreaker Kovany's story: He had lost his good job. had to give up his fine apartment, now lived by casual work. Without rest he could not work. In a hard bed he could not res:. So each night he broke into a big house, slept in a soft bed, remade the bed before he left...
...expert golfer, Funnyman Hardy has won 24 cups and two gold medals; nonetheless, he is fat and soft-looking. Laurel is thin and pale, speaks with a low-grade London accent. Funnyman Laurel seems to be the more stupid of the two, but not by very much. In Pardon Us, the teacher in the prison school asks him how many times 3 goes into 9. Laurel's answer: "Three times-and two left over." Hardy's answer: "He's wrong-there's only one left over...
Admonished through calm foggy days by a soft choir of foghorns, harbor whistles and bell buoys; winked at on clear evenings by shore-lights and lighthouses, 50 of the finest U.S. sailing ships set out last fortnight on the annual cruise of the New York Yacht Club, principal U.S. yachting event of any summer when there is no racing for the America's Cup. Riding at anchor in Newport before the first day's run was Weetamoe, which Frederick H. Prince of Boston had purchased from the members of the Weetamoe Syndicate and which had won three races...
...Next day we brought the dead down through the soft snow to an island of rock emerging from the sea of ice and surrounded by an incomparable mountain circus. There we buried them today, not trying to hide our tears, and joined all our forces to build a tomb worthy of the man who gave his life for a great cause...
...unlike power and railroads, cannot readily be fitted in under the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution. Before Congress could act -and act it must-it would have to find some legal means of declaring coal a public utility. A revision of the anti-trust law to allow soft coal mining to regulate itself is one possibility, as President Hoover in his message to Congress last December, pointed out. Another is legislation in the name of conservation whereby the Government would buy up unprofitable mines and hold their contents as a national reserve in much the same...