Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidents. In the ornate, yellow-brick house at No. 801 Buchanan St., with a dried-up goldfish pool in the front yard, Alf M. Landon crawled out of bed at 7 o'clock one morning last week. Swiftly the Governor of Kansas pulled on an old blue suit, soft white shirt, red and blue tie, black shoes. At 7:20 he was down for a breakfast of orange juice, fruit, scrambled eggs and kidneys, toast and coffee with his two small children-John Cobb, 2, and Nancy Josephine, 3. Mrs. Landon, whose digestion has suffered lately from...
...prove his point Dr. Darrah went to history, discovered some soft-headed doings by folk generally considered to have been quite hardheaded. "Queen Victoria," he revealed, "commanded that her dead husband's clothing be laid out afresh every evening, also water in his basin, and this astonishing rite was performed with scrupulous regularity for nearly 40 years. . . . [There was also] Disraeli, twice premier of England, whom Lytton Strachey describes as 'a vainglorious creature racked by gout and asthma, dyed and corseted with a curl on his miserable old forehead kept in its place all night by a bandana...
...regents can, and often do, take care of onetime governors with soft jobs in their banks or corporations, notably the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez, favorite sinecure for loyal politicians. Another thing that tends to weaken the resistance of governors is the fact that many of them have to borrow money to buy their 100 qualifying shares. In boom days 100 shares of Bank of France stock was worth, at present parity, more than $150,000 and last week, after a 50% decline in the past year, more than $30,000. The regents or their banks are only...
...glass in a vacuum tank, boiling the aluminum off an electric coil so that the aluminum vapor deposits itself on the glass. At Johns Hopkins Dr. Wood used the same method for laying down on his plates first a thin coat of hard chromium, then a layer of soft aluminum. To make diffraction gratings the diamond point had to cut only through the aluminum skin. Last week Dr. Wood left no doubt that these gratings, with 210,000 lines in a space of seven inches, are the finest ever made...
...mild celebration with the sudden resolution to drive down to New York at about one o'clock in the morning. Two of them jumped into the front seat, one into the rumble, and off they went to Boston. The owner, despite his jubilation, had portentous suspicions of a certain soft front tire and decided to purchase a new one before setting out on the lengthy journey. After much scanning and scouring of the streets of Boston, as Fate would have it, nowhere could they discover a tire shop that wasn't closed for the night. Before long the occupant...