Word: softer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the bones in Dr. Colbert's quarry are softer than the Chinle (sandy clay) formation that surrounds them, they must be taken up with great care. No attempt is being made to recover individual bones at Ghost Ranch: the entire bonanza is being hewn out in big blocks of rock (one to eight tons each), and shipped to Manhattan. There, in the next few months, experts will remove the matrix of rock around the fossils, and carefully polish and reassemble the skeletons...
Buoyed by such news, most businessmen began to find new and softer meanings for the term recession. After the downturn this spring, many an economist had feared a fairly sharp drop. Yet even in industries where there had been a sudden slump, notably textiles, the readjustment had been made with no more than a tooth-shaking jar. Now there was hope that other adjustments could be made in a gradual, orderly fashion. So when businessmen talked of recession, most of them no longer meant a big, sudden crack un the whole economy, but a continuation, industry by industry...
...girl to do a man's job. He told Barbara Ward to spend a couple of months in the U.S., find out what was on the U.S. mind, and then write a series about it. Brisk and brilliant Barbara Ward, who at 32 is a kind of younger, softer-voiced, English edition of Dorothy Thompson, went at it in a big way. Her research project turned into a coast-to-coast lecture tour, with radio dates and extra speeches thrown in. She gave as many interviews as she got, and never ran out of breath or big, round statements...
...cardinal issue of U.S. policy toward Russia. A Gallup poll reported last week that 19% of the people approved a continuation of Jimmy Byrnes's firmness-with-patience approach to Russia, but that an additional 51% hoped that Secretary Marshall would be even firmer. Only 5% wanted softer tactics...
...Crimson's one-mile relay members seem to have drawn a softer assignment than their two - mile brothers. They have only Holy Cross and Brown to worry about, while the two-mile quartet will have to take on virtually the entire Greater Boston field, M.I.T., Boston College, Tufts, Northeastern, and Holy Cross...