Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Francisco Franco, again busy over staff maps with his big soft pencil, directed last week the Rightist recapture of Teruel, bloody "Spanish Verdun." Inside this little city, Valentin Gonsalez, a picturesque Leftist Army leader known as El Campesino ("The Peasant"), was busy dynamiting such civic buildings as were not already in ruins, while the 20,000 Leftists holding Teruel clung grimly to their posts...
What Artist Earle crossed the U. S. to see was not city life but countryside. Result: a sheaf of landscapes remarkable for their suggestion of distances, land masses and weather moods, a soft poem of U. S. mountains as Pare Lorentz' documentary movie, The River (TIME, Nov. 8), is a hard poem of U. S. rivers. In Desert Near Santa Fe he caught with a series of fine washes, quickly dried with the brush, the 90-mile, lucent light of the Southwest; in Color Splendor he framed the broad Shenandoah Valley. Critics who doubt the permanency of soft poems...
Intra-mural sports have invaded the Yard with the recent project inaugurated by the Freshman Union Committee. Yardling aggregations will vie with one another in Squash, Tennis, and Soft Ball...
...first sport to be organized is squash, and provided a sufficient number of the 200 Yardlings playing the game will show interest, the competition between the halls will be started next week. Tennis and soft ball contests will be arranged and organized during the Spring vacation...
Adolph W. Samborski, Director of intra-mural athletics, has said that there will be plenty of fields available for the soft ball competition, and it is reported there is even a possibility that a regatta for single shells will be arranged...