Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Says Yale's Chemical Engineer Clifford Cook Furnas in his recent The Next Hundred, Years: "The energy requirements of the average person's body could be fulfilled by the daily consumption of less than a pound of soft coal. . . . My own advice, however, is: do not attempt a coal diet . . . hogs eat coal and enjoy it, but they also eat rattlesnakes and enjoy those, too."-ED. Planes & Weather...
...this thing, Earl, if we work it right . . ." wrote he from Washington. "You should be here to see the jitters that some of the Congressmen are in as a result of the mandates they are receiving from their constituents. It is fun. I am always spoken of as a soft-voiced, mild-mannered old chap. I have not received an unfriendly word from a single man at the Capitol building...
...need a core that has the shape of the normal larynx so that we can mold from the amorphous mass of shattered cartilage, torn tissue and blood clots the opening necessary for the normal functioning of the organ." To do that Dr. Jackson has a set of expansible soft rubber rods of graduated diameters. First he makes a hole through the base of the patient's neck into the windpipe. This permits the patient to breathe during the years which may be necessary to repair his throat. Dr. Jackson's first direct step is to compress a small...
...term mole refers to two separate kinds of growths in the body: 1) a soft, fleshy mass (Latin mola) in the womb, caused by an ovum which started to become a baby but failed; 2) a pigmented spot (Anglo-Saxon mael) in the skin. According to Dr. Affleck, Mole No. 2 "may occur anywhere on the surface of the body, in the mucous membranes of the upper and lower ends of the digestive tube, and in the eye." It may be covered with coarse hairs. In color it ranges from light brown to black. Color is due to a pigment...
21st.--Ope'd my eyes very betimes, but lay long a humming some Oriental tune, yet I know not where I got it; thence, soft sun in my face, to muse on this fine tribute to morning and how rich are its lines...