Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shall never forget yesterday. There sat this always solitary man-he and I, of course, in the room alone, each, I am sure, giving the other his full confidence.'' Says Millis: "It was a dangerous illusion for a diplomatist at a moment like that one." Page soft-pedalled Wilson's sharpest notes to the British Government, drew frequent Wilsonian rebukes: "Beg that you will not regard the position of this Government as merely academic. Contact with opinion on this side the water would materially alter your view. . . ." But long before the U. S. joined the Allies, Page...
...Netherlands N. S. B. stands for National Socialistische Beweging. Glib Dutch youths explain that their N. S. B. combines the best features of Italian Fascism and German Naziism with the drawbacks of neither and serviceable Dutch additions. Queen Wilhelmina, not to be hornswoggled, fired from his fine soft government job some years ago the founder of the movement, Dike-Builder A. A. Mussert, who had been Hydraulic Engineer of Utrecht Province...
Cane Sugar .... 1½, Eggs, soft boiled...
...Honest Fritz Reiner, Philadelphia's opera conductor, spoke praisingly at the first demonstration. Soloist was Organist Pietro Yon of St. Patrick's Cathedral (TIME, May 7, 1934). Under his command, the new instrument seemed capable of a thousand effects. It was full-toned and rich, eerie and soft. In a modern pipe organ, similar sounds depend on electric blowers. A separate pipe is required for each separate tone. Mechanism of the new instrument is all in the console, in a bed of magnets, coils and whirling disks. With the turn of a switch, the motor...
...Elliott treat-ment of other body orifices with other shapes of rubber bags. Dr. James Malcolm MacKellar, assistant chief surgeon of Englewood, N. J. Hospital, treats sinusitis that way. He inserts a rubber sack the diameter of a lead pencil through each nostril to the top side of the soft palate. Each tube contains a partition which allows a steady flow of hot water. Sinus pains speedily cease as the water circulates. With another kind of Elliott rubber bag, Drs. John Henry Morrissey and Leo L. Michel of Manhattan, and a thousand others, are heat-treating abscesses of the teeth...