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Word: soft (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field made soft by morning rains which for a time threatened to cause postponement, slowed play somewhat, but the contest was one of the closest seen in college ranks this season The score was knotted at five different times during the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polo Team Defeats Army to Enter Final of Collegiates | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...this soft-spoken Carl Milles responded: "I am certain that they will love the finished fountain." Somewhat forgotten amid the publicity was the fact that Milles possesses not only the most invigorating fancy now at work in sculpture but an unsurpassed gift for making a powerful, rhythmic composition of many sculptured figures. In his Wedding the strong male figure of the Mississippi and the aloof female Missouri, mounted on swooping fishes, will approach each other in the centre of Aloe Plaza. Behind each lollops a flowing train of antic naiads and tough river gods. To Detroit last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Important Wedding | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...soft droning fills the air, and the Vagabond thrashes uneasily in his bed. It is very early in the morning, he knows, for the alarm clock has not yet shrilled the arrival of another day. Laboriously he opens an eye. Hmm, only six o'clock. At least four hours before the mind will be able to concentrate on work. Raising his head, he looks out the open window. Sun on towers and chimneys already. A pigeon coos on a nearby ledge. Four stories below a watchman's heavy feet lumber past, echoing dully. Hot Golly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/1/1938 | See Source »

...McMahon and for defense counsel, who included former Federal Judge Charles I. Dawson of Louisville and Alabama Utilities Attorney Forney Johnston. Thanks to a remarkable prevalence of sickness among talesmen's womenfolk, and the paucity of southeastern Kentuckians who were not in some fashion dependent upon the soft coal industry, the lawyers questioned and discarded over 250 talesmen before they could agree upon a jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Case of Mary-Helen | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

Ludlum Steel Corp. Allegheny Ludlum will be the industry's 18th largest company, with an annual capacity of 138,000 tons of quality alloys, 400,000 tons of flat-rolled soft steel, plants in upstate New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Two in One | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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