Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Rochester, N. Y. the newly elected president of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, Surgeon John Jamieson Morton Jr. of the University of Rochester, generally a soft-spoken man, exclaimed: "As far as the medical profession knows, serum in the treatment of cancer is of no value...
...indices last week there was evidence of little but stagnation. Steel production rose from 33% to 35% of capacity, highest point since November. Car loadings rose a mite in expectation of the new rates. But lumber output was off 6% for the week, power production 2%, oil production 0.8%, soft coal 8%. Bank clearings were at a new low since 1934 but gold was pouring into the country at a rate which showed that the rest of the world still thinks the U. S. the safest place to cache its valuables. The stock market proceeded to slip from...
...from the mud and slosh of New Jersey winters were still in place along the paths, but earth smells arose from the drying ground, excited birds skittered in the shrubbery, squirrels chattered in the trees. Students went to classes without neckties, and in the afternoons an elderly man with soft, inquisitive eyes and a flowing halo of white hair ambled in & out of Fine Hall, pausing to admire the changing season. He had always felt close to Nature-ever since his unhappy childhood in Munich, his happy youth in Italy, his placid days in Switzerland when he worked...
Plans are under way for the opening of the intra-mural soft ball league in the graduate schools. A total of 14 teams, eight in the Law School and six in the Business School are being organized...
...eight teams in the Law School will be distributed among the Houses as follows: Walter Hastings, two; Winthrop, two; Chancery, two; Wendell, one; Perkins, one. Soft ball teams may also be formed in the various departments within the graduate schools...