Word: softer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week a new seat was provided for him to relax in. In a bye-election, Clay Cross, Derbyshire returned him to the House of Commons with a three-to-one majority over the Government candidate, on a platform of peace and disarmament. The seat will be the softer for the knowledge that his former friend, white-crowned James Ramcay MacDonald, campaigned personally against...
Johns Hopkins' Professor Dean DeWitt Lewis, who is the new A. M. A. president, said that he hunts for a tumor of the parathyroid when he gets a case of bone cyst. The cysts "develop and the bones get softer and shorter because the diseased parathyroid cannot produce enough hormones to hold calcium in the bones. Surgeon Lewis cuts out the parathyroid tumors, cures his patients...
...Museum at the age of 17, she was one of few girls to complete the late Instructor Philip Leslie Hale's notoriously stiff anatomy course. In New York, generally working with Dr. Roland Grausman, she has specialized in sketches of diseased bronchial tracts. But Miss Robinson has her softer side...
...Vagabond was, they said, cynical, but they were wrong. There are excuses in this mortal life for anything, if they must be given, and while it is better to let the scoffing charge pass unnoticed, cynical is a hard word. Everyone may go by a softer name but the cynic. The sinister, cheerful lawbreaker who warms your entrails is an "importer." He who steals your trashy purse because you pay safely by check, is no usurer, but a respectable banker. So along the line, gentlemen all, does the world avoid rasping unpleasantness, except the cynic, whose avocation of cavity...
...doesn't seem quite fair to condemn the Lindberghs for belonging, as they do, to this softer age instead of to a starker...