Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most significant definition of all, the U. S. merchant marine is the ricketiest collection of tubs owned by any important nation-85% over 17 years old, carrying less than 40% of U. S. foreign trade, grossing an estimated $200,000,000 a year or about as much as the soft-drink business. But soft drinks make money, while the merchant marine operates at a tremendous and apparently perpetual loss...
...descriptions of nature; but readers who automatically skip such passages may find their eyes arrested willy-nilly. Nature to Jean Giono is not a static stage-set but a legion of dynamic actors. His trees not only have their individual smells but their own voices; water is hard or soft like a hostile muscle or like friendly flesh; everything breathes and moves, lives and acts. Sample: "Flights of dead leaves were swept off by the rain. The woods were being stripped bare. Huge water-polished oaks emerged from the downpour with their gigantic black hands clenched in the rain...
...opening the vaults of Hollywood for school use. Four years ago broad-beamed Educator May and Dean Howard Le Sourd of the Boston University Graduate School set out to experiment in this direction by extracting morally helpful episodes from old feature films. Encouraged by Arthur De Bra, a soft-spoken Hays lieutenant who was once a teacher himself, they constructed a series called Secrets of Success. Educator May got the Rockefeller General Education Board to contribute $75,000 to the Progressive Education Association to test Secrets of Success next fall in a number of selected classrooms. Last week Experimenters...
...pretensions to supremacy in the entertainment labor held. Equity surrendered its radio division, approved the establishment of a new autonomous A. A. A. A. affiliate to be known as he American Federation of Radio Artists. In return, A. A. A. A. provided Equity's president with a soft place to light...
...bond offering, while the bond market, incidentally, grew weaker & weaker.' Finally the Advisory Board last month suggested that the offering be announced in the press and by letter to interested bond houses. No announcement was made, no letters sent. What happened was that six days later soft-spoken George Baum of Baum, Bernheimer arranged a meeting with the Commissioners, went home to Kansas City next day with the deal in his pocket...