Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ginger ale and other soft drinks are the biggest sellers, closely followed by frankfurters. So far this year, the sale of frankfurters has tripled over the same time last year. A new process of cooking the frankfurters has been inaugurated, and arrangements have been made to do away with the trouble of having empty bottles lying on the ground and in the Stadium. All drinks will be served in paper cups, and no one will be permitted to take any bottles away from the stands...
...unfortunate dupes of the situation. They fail to realize that the truth of the occurrences on every evening of the convention has been hidden by politician and press alike. The fact remains that the newspaper reports written at the time of the convention differ widely from the soft-pedaled versions which denied the same facts afterwards. And no newspaper had either the courage or freedom enough to speak the truth editorially...
...with Eggs!" Not only wheat but barley, corn, eggs, lumber and other commodities were rumored dumped by Russia last week upon Europe. M. Le Senateur Henri Cheron, famed Finance Minister of France in the "Stabilized Franc" Cabinet two years ago (TIME, Nov. 19, 1928), cracks and scoops out a soft boiled egg nearly every morning,* white and profuse though his whiskers are. Last week this excitable elder statesman suspected every egg set before him of being from Moscow. What drove him frantic was that he could not be sure! "In Great Britain, Belgium and Germany it is otherwise!", stormed...
Coach Ulen pointed out that the schedule facing Harvard is not an easy one, especially for a newly organized and inexperienced team; but he feels that the men will get more out of a stiff season than a soft...
...Greenland Expedition, has two tame musk ox mascots which he captured in Greenland. Under its shaggy coat, the musk ox has a close covering of woolly fleece which experiments (at the University of Leeds, England) have shown to be excellent for cloth. It dyes and bleaches well, is as soft as cashmere, does not shrink. The meat of the musk ox cannot be distinguished from beef, nor the milk from cow's milk. Neither meat nor milk taste of the strong musk odor which is characteristic of the animal and can be detected several hundred feet away...