Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lanky and thin-shouldered, though he carries his height well. Onetime Senator Jim Reed of Missouri, who disliked him intensely, referred to him sneeringly in debate as "The Tall Cedar of Lebanon." His features have an Indian regularity, almost handsome. His expression is one of serene superiority. His soft snow-white hair stands out in the shadowy Senate chamber like a white plume. When he walks he strides. His suits are soft and grey, easy-fitting. While a Harvard post-graduate student (1900), he married short, slender Alfreda Mitchell of New London, Conn., who has borne him seven large sons...
...Auburn, Ala., reported that they had "evidence of considerable weight for the presence" of eka-cesium in certain salts they had reduced from lepidolite, a form of mica, and pollucite, a mineral consisting chiefly of cesium, aluminum and silicon. When they break down their salts they will get a soft silvery-white metal which will look and react much as do the alkali metals lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium and cesium. When eka-cesium is isolated, then Messrs. Allison & Murphy will have the pleasant problem of naming it. The recent tendency for such names has been after places-hafnium...
...concrete penetrates water-logged ground, but was not made impervious to water. Consequently water, especially where it carries chemicals like sulphates in solution, has reacted with the concrete to make a cement mush. The security of the buildings depend on the tenacity of the soil keeping the columns of soft concrete from spreading...
...This typically Mexican scene," cabled esthetic Herald Tribune Correspondent Jack Starr-Hunt, "was capped by a military band that played soft, doleful music, contrasting sharply with the brilliance of the blue sky overhead...
...hour after the chestnut horse had kicked the boards in his stall at the smell of smoke there were no more screams of burning horses. The reluctant dawn sky had turned bright blue; smoke still curled into the still air; and exercise boys were breezing their colts around the soft dirt track...