Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House teams swing into the final round of intramural athletics today after a week's layoff for Divisionals, the Deacons seem to have things fairly well in hand, with the tennis championship cinched, the baseball crown practically so, and a 50-50 chance to cop the soft ball title. In golf Kirkland is in a triple tie for second...
...retreat, are now reformed for service in the Catalonian, northern half of Leftist territory, reported Sheean. The 15th Brigade, which includes the U. S. Lincoln-Washington battalion, the Canadian and British battalions, is now commanded by a Croat, Colonel Chopic. Its political commissar, John Gates, is a little soft-spoken union organizer from New York. "The Americans in the brigade are about 75% to 80% Communists-a much higher percentage than in other brigades. In the British and Canadian battalions the percentage of Communists is much lower." U. S. volunteers are still carrying on in the Leftist medical service...
Tomorrow Eliot faces Lowell and Winthrop is scheduled to take on Dudley in baseball games. Dunster and Adams will mix it up in soft ball, with Kirkland slated to play Leverett...
...explanation, according to Lieutenant Waterman: Southerners are in no hurry, take time to chew; the hard water of Arkansas' Ozark Mountains and of Tennessee's Cumberland Range contains minerals which help to build strong teeth. Easterners are always on the go, gulp and gobble their relatively soft food and water, lack exercise and fresh...
...least cautious move was his marriage to Emma Wedgwood. It took him only three years to decide on that plunge. On the one hand, debated Darwin, was the "terrible loss of time"; on the other "a nice soft wife on a sofa, with good fire and books and music perhaps. . . ." Handsome, untidy, cheerful, unsentimental Emma was not soft, but she was, for Darwin, more than nice. Their marriage was as blissful as the Brownings'. They both agreed that Tennyson's poetry was usually silly, detested the same people, chiefly the Carlyles...