Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bliss at Herne Bay, England in 1913. At Pittsburgh last week, rules were that each contestant got three chances, only drives that stopped on the fairway counted. Contestants' only advantage was a tee elevated 150 ft. above the fairway. There was no wind, the ground was soft. Always the favorite in driving contests, bulky Jimmy Thomson of Shawnee, Pa., who can throw himself into his shot like a hockey player, was overanxious last week to substantiate his reputation. On his first try he hit his ball thickly, dubbed it a mere 276 yd. His second, cleanly but cautiously...
...shirt sleeves leans out a window on the top floor or Widener just as a soft classical song has begun. The window squeaks, and some one shouts, "Get back in there, professor; you're wasting the university's money." The girls from Radcliffe, in suits of varied colors, with short socks and dirty white-and-black or tan-and-white shoes, giggle and look quickly around. Of course, it is a Harvard student, silly creature...
Scotland's modest soft. Loch Ness monster "Nessy" at least has this over Ireland's Loch Dearg creature: photographic views of it have been published by the Illustrated London News and the New York Times...
...final strains of "Fair Harvard", sung by the Glee Club et al, were dwindling off and mingling in concord with the towering spires of Memorial, Sever, and Weld Halls. The soothing clutches of night were clasping the Yard in its soft embrace, for lack of anything better...
Ahead of this crew no soft snaps are waiting. Saturday they meet a Tech crew that is anxious to reverse the tables and a Columbia eight that licked Yale by a quarter of a length. Just how much that means is still to be seen, but the race is likely to be close enough to mean that for the second time in as many weeks, the fifties will provide most of the thrills of the Regatta...