Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alliance men at the convention were wan, tireless President David Lasser. 36, and bespectacled, soft-spoken Secretary-Treasurer Herbert Benjamin. 37. Two-and-a-half years ago Socialist Lasser's original Alliance and Herbert Benjamin's Communist Unemployment Councils submerged their differences, merged with lesser organizations into the present Alliance. The membership (now claimed 400,000. mostly in Eastern, Midwestern and Pacific Coast cities) continually shifts as clients go on & off relief. The leadership is also in constant flux, at the moment includes such active but seldom mentioned figures as John Spain of New Jersey, Lee Morgan...
This year Samborski intends to continue the activities on a larger scale. In addition to the two fall sports there will be basketball and squash leagues during the winter and tennis and soft ball again next spring...
Last year Thayer wound up on top in the soft ball standings, while Straus won the tennis meet. All matches on the courts were singles and this system will be repeated this fall in the tournament...
...according to Dr. McCrady, the young opossums do exactly that: after the mother has moistened the hair on her abdomen, they slowly pull themselves by the claws on their forefeet up the incline into the soft, warm, apron-pocket pouch. The mother sits quietly on her haunches, takes no part in the affair. It is likely that many of the young, with little but instinct to guide them, miss the mother's pouch entirely. The number found there is al most always less than the number of embryos in the uterus shortly before birth...
Little has been said of the excellent athletic program carried on in the Camp. Soft ball was the predominant sport, volley ball was a close second, while the barnyard game of horse-shoes took the "spare" time of many enthosiasts. "It's a ringer" was heard many an afternoon between close of drill and retreat. The final game of the soft ball league, played on Visitors' Day, was a thriller, such as one reads about in the sports magaiznes...