Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Navy men agree that Admiral Leahy is stepping up to no soft job. After energetic Admiral Standley, who was two classes ahead of his successor at Annapolis, took over the office in 1933, he widened its scope considerably, became the Navy's No. 1 diplomat as well as its No. 1 sailor. He was a delegate to the London Disarmament Conference and the London Naval Conference. He has had to serve as Acting Secretary of the Navy during Secretary Swanson's long illness. When funds were needed for President Roosevelt's big naval program, he appeared before...
Tomorrow to the Navy game and to the Kirkland House party afterwards. Puzzled all week over whether to wear soft or dress shirt and now the dilemma is settled because he hasn't enough money to pay for laundering any of his three dirty shirts. Two bits will go a long ways to buy one cocktail before dinner. And a cocktail inside a soft shirt is better than a dress shirt outside of nothing...
...that Indiana city therefore went the Red Nominee armed with a $1,000 certified check to prove he was not a "vagrant." Again he did not make a highly successful speech because a court refused him an injunction against police interference, because 200 hoodlums with rotten eggs and soft tomatoes blocked his way into the radio station where he was to broadcast. Next he went to Tampa where he had just started to speak from a platform in an empty lot when a dozen hoodlums rushed in, knocked down several of his supporters with clubs and pistol butts, picked...
...better than most men's technique with a gun. He uses a telephoto lens with a sight such that he can "shoot" at arm's length, as with a fowling piece. He has the eye of a killer to focus and centre his pictures perfectly. Printed. on soft paper his exposures lose some definition, but any experienced gunner will recognize Photographer Simmons' teal, duck and goose action close-ups as the result of shrewd and patient hunting...
George F. Lowman '38, who met Burt in the semi-finals, also gained the distinction of taking a set from the Exeter flash. In the other semi-final clash, Hauck had little trouble with the soft stroking Alvah Sulloway, drubbing...