Word: softener
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...spite of the rain yesterday afternoon, at half-past three o'clock the football men were practicing on Jarvis field. The ground was in excellent condition as the rain had not fallen in sufficient quantity to soften it. After an hour's energetic play the men were ordered to take a few turns on the running track, while Kimball and Peabody remained to practice kicking. The first few days of training are always the hardest and the countenances of many showed that yesterday was their first hard work after a few months of rest. The number of old players...
Might not this grief have soften'd Isador...
...first rank was the Pierian Sodality, dressed in the uniform of a defunct military body. The strains wafted from their instruments filled the air with sweet melody, and did much to soften the fierce spirits of the wild beasts behind...
...Soften down the Dean's decree...
...editors refuse to permit a letter from an anonymous correspondent; in the second place, they do not like the idea of having a correspondent; in the third place, they say that not even a knowledge of his name would justify them in printing his first letter; but finally soften toward him, and remark that "possibly his second may be of a more satisfactory nature. If so, it will avail nothing without his name...