Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First Baptist Church of Oakland, Calif, was all ready one night last week to extend a rousing welcome to a visitor from Japan, the No. i Christian of that land. Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa. The church folk of Los Angeles would gather the following night to greet the soft-faced, myopic 47-year-old man of God whose arrival has been heralded in church papers for months. Few days after Christmas the Young People's Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Memphis, had on its program the name of the great Dr. Kagawa, who went to Princeton Theological...
...minds about how or whether to take him, Dorothy proposed a trial trip to Paris together-purely platonic. As the train pulled out of London's Victoria Station, according to his invariable custom Bennett changed to his "traveling hat"- "a round affair of tweed with a soft brim, peculiarly endearing." Records Dorothy Cheston: "I remember that I felt curiously responsible, as though I were traveling with bullion." In Paris something happened that decided her heart: every morning Bennett would call for her, bearing a bunch of white flowers which he had bought at a stall on the corner...
...Quite contrary to the common impression that college men are growing soft, I believe that the present generation has more initiative, spirit, and intellectual ability than my contemporaries," he said. " A modern college youth would easily endure the hardships involved in working his way around the world and in visiting strange and unknown places. He would probably discover many things that I have missed, for he is an extremely keen persons...
...locomotives were piled one on top of the other and their combined weight rested on a postage stamp, the resultant pressure would be some 1,440,000 lb. per sq. in. Such a pressure, Harvard University announced last week, has been produced in its physics laboratories by stocky, soft-spoken Percy Williams Bridgman and maintained for 15 hours on a speck of graphite as big as a pinhead...
...contrast to 20,000,000 U. S. Catholics who have 122 bishops, 2,000,000 U. S. Episcopalians have 126 shepherds. Lately editorialized the high-church Living Church: "Do we need so many bishops?" The low-church Chronicle: "Are our bishops getting soft?" When the House of Bishops held its annual meeting last month in Houston, Tex. it did nothing about reducing its size. Last week brought a prospective increase in its numbers...