Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peculiar quality about this young man's ailment is that ordinary methods do not arouse him from slumber. The most potent and heavy-handed alarm clock, placed only a few inches from his ear, startles everyone else on the floor, but to our young man it is as soft breezes sighing in the trees...
Rocky, radiant, soft-spoken Anthony Sisti, who runs his own art school in Buffalo and flies to Manhattan every week to teach drawing at the New York School of Applied Design for Women, belongs to the modern school in art and the old school in boxing. A praiser of the days when fighters like Benny Leonard relied on brains rather than bang, Tony Sisti planned to eke out six cagey rounds last week. Instead, he found his young and hopeful opponent open to certain applications of practical anatomy, dropped him once and knocked him out for good in 70 seconds...
Nature put soft tufts of fibre on cotton seeds so that the wind would carry them away from the plant to take root. Man came to attach more importance to the fibre than to the seeds, cultivated cotton for more fibre. The U. S. now raises too much cotton lint, not enough cottonseed.* But there is no economic reason for not raising cotton as a seed crop, since cottonseed oil makes oleomargarine, shortening, soap, and the cottonseed cake which remains after the oil is squeezed out makes good fodder for cattle...
...three sensitive hairs serve as a trigger mechanism. When an insect touches these, the lobes snap together, the spikes meshing to prevent escape. Then the leaf, says Miss Prior, "is converted into a virtual stomach and the glands on the upper surface . . . come into action until all the soft parts of the prey are liquefied...
...Canaan, N.H. Cloudy Good 15 Cannon Mt. (Tramway) N.H. Cloudy Poor 70 1 in. br. cr. Conway, N.H. Cloudy Fair 19 Granular Dartmouth Region, N.H. Cloudy Poor 11 Franconia Notch, N.H. Cloudy Poor 40 1in. br. cr. Fryeburg, Me. Fair Fair 28 Light cr. Greenfield, Mass. Fair None 2 Soft Intervale, N.H. Cloudy Fair 20 Granular Jackson, N.H. Cloudy Fair 19 Granular Laconia (Gilford) N.H. Cloudy Poor 16 Wet Lancaster, N.H. Raining Poor 10 Wet Lincoln, N.H. Cloudy Fair 28 Wet Littleton, N.H. Cloudy Poor 8 Wet Monadnock Region, N.H. Fair Poor 6 Wet Newfound Region, N.H. Cloudy Poor...