Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest city. A reformer by inclination, he is no fanatic; he uses the conventional means of the law. A representative of the Better Element, he has had political experience more varied than the most cunning double-crossing ward heeler. Pontifical are the remarks which he makes in a soft baritone about the weather. Even his manner of blowing his nose in court is sonorous, distinguished. He also has imagination and a sense of humor...
...economic murk enveloping the bituminous coal industry last week emerged the outline of a startling relief proposal at which most big mine operators, harassed by low prices and labor troubles, clutched hopefully. This was it: let the Federal Government declare soft coal mining a public utility and regulate it accordingly. Sponsor for the proposal was no less a figure than John D. A. Morrow, president of the $165.000,000 Pittsburgh Coal Co., second largest bituminous producer...
...prosecution under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. If, as Mr. Morrow proposed, the Government should step into control of the industry, it could close down the smaller mines, guide the larger ones safely around the Sherman law to profitable mergers and otherwise act to conserve a natural resource. If soft coal mining were put on a paying basis, Mr. Morrow argued, prices would rise sufficiently to adjust miners' wages and thereby eliminate strikes. Secretary Lamont pondered the idea, promised nothing...
...first set 12-10; the second (during which an awning of the clubhouse caught fire), 8-6. Vines, whose forehand drive is now the fastest in amateur U. S. tennis, pulled up to win the next set after Doeg had led 3-1. Doeg had tried playing soft shots at Vines, only to find that Vines, standing sideways to the net and timing his returns carefully, had learned how to handle them. In the fourth set, he was pounding the ball again. Presently Doeg was within two points of the match-4-5 and 0-30 on Vines...
Near Missouri Valley, Iowa, two speedy motorists failed to notice the "Bridge Out" sign on the Boyer River. Their car leaped 70 feet across the water, landed them unhurt in soft...