Word: softer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place for everything and everything in its place--and that is not the grass of the Yard. When the bovine and divine contact little is left of the Aristotelian ambition for a thinking man--and yet--one must admit that the stones of Widener steps grow no softer with the years. So perhaps these Rousseauistic recumbants are a bit justified--perhaps...
...again under indictment, and must this time bow its head to the charges of no less an authority than Amos Alonzo Stagg, director of athletics at the University of Chicago. There is little doubt, in the opinion of Mr. Stagg, that modern youth has been allowed to grow up softer than a punctured balloon tire. He would put the blame on such Innocent appearing things as late hours, rich foods, and indulgence in other luxuries of life which he believes have combined to enervate the present generation...
William Allen White, white-haired, slightly rotund, filled with enthusiasm and laughing a high little laugh that in a softer degree is not unlike the famous bubbling laugh of Chief Justice Taft, approached a group of young writers. "Here," said he, "is the Revolution...
Presumably, however, the plan at Columbia has been drawn up to provide such necessary machinery. But there still remains a valid objection to the scheme as a whole. Of course, practical business men wil decry it as making education a soft sinecure--or a softer sinecure than they say education is at present. The objection does not follow naturally, but it may follow in this case and so throw discredit on the whole trend of the collegiate educational system. The proposal to abolish examinations has come not through evolution and the gradual growth of the desire the learn...
...Bureau of Mines, under 0. P. Hood, Chief Mechanical Engineer, is working on a process to produce lignite char, a fuel similar to anthracite, but softer. In Germany this material is widely used for heating and cooking, but the competition of high-grade coals has kept it back in America. With the gradually increasing scarcity of good anthracite and bituminous, lignite will become a valuable substitute...