Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daughter Alicia), had not suffered a serious accident. Last week Capt. Becker flew a $25,000 Laird biplane from Roosevelt Field to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., there overshot the field, cracked up. He climbed into another Laird, reached Roosevelt Field 2 hr. after his first takeoff, struck a soft patch of ground, cracked up. Said Capt. Becker, emerging still unhurt from the second wreck: "Well, I guess that's a record...
...Lumber, soft...
...hands now free to give and take, the five Senate conferees on the Tariff Bill last week moved swiftly to a final compromise with the five House conferees on the disputed items of H. R. 2667. The export debenture plan was dropped irrevocably from the measure. The rate on soft lumber, twice free-listed by the House and fixed at $1.50 per 1,000 ft. by the Senate, was set at $1 per 1,000 ft. after the Senate conferees had explained that further recession might cost them the votes of the Senate's "lumber bloc" and thus imperil final...
California University's aggregation arrived yesterday but did not test the Stadium cinders because Dennis Enright did not want the soft track ruined in any way. Southern California and Stanford, the latter the favorite to repeat its victory of last year, will check in today and both will in all probability limber up in the Stadium. Other teams from the East and the Middle West are expected in tomorrow but the bulk of the competitors will not come to Cambridge until Thursday...
...walked free from the U. S. penitentiary at Atlanta, Eugene Victor Debs was a name to anger conservative businessmen throughout the land, to hearten the consciously downtrodden. Behind the name was a tall lanky blue-eyed man, rapidly going bald, with a genius for friendship, a heart emotionally soft, a darting forefinger, a tongue afire with vituperation. Five times was he a candidate for President of the U. S. His whole life was a steady passionate movement to the left along the sliding scale of Radicalism, from conservative unionism, through Bryan Democracy, Populism, Social Democracy to revolutionary Socialism...