Word: softly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then would the sponges be sold in the one-story brick building called the Sponge Exchange. Yellow, soft, they would be spread on the grey concrete floor like a grotesque splash of sunlight. Purchasers would appraise, make anonymous bids. If the sellers would not sell, a second bid would be made, perhaps a third. But if the third bid was also rejected the Law of the Sponge Exchange has it that the sponges may no longer be offered for sale...
...traffic congestion, to the benefit of shippers, if to the chagrin of trans-shippers. Neighboring cities might benefit, places like Port Newark, N. J., and Norfolk, Va. All four railroad systems would carry grain and manufactured articles eastward. The Pennsylvania, C. & O. and B. & O. would go through soft coal country (western Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia), the New York Central and Pennsylvania through hard coal country (eastern Pennsylvania). Pennsylvania and B. & O. would serve the middle Atlantic states. New York Central would take care of New England over the Boston & Albany and New York, New Haven & Hartford, and would reach...
...Soft Drinks. Three beverage-bottling companies last week agreed to unite: Carl H. Schultz Corp. (70-year-old table & mineral water company), Schoneberger & Noble Inc. (Dr. Brown's Celery Tonic), Brownie Corp. (new "Brownie" chocolate drink). President E. C. McCullough of the holding company, American Beverage Corp., announced that these three are only the beginning of a nationwide soft-drink chain...
...shelves, her plight is put at the back door of the Psychological Clinic. It is known that abnormal psychology deals with the subject of hypnotism, and hypnotism has its parentage rooted in charlatanism and black magic. Sex and other so-called "Freudian material" tabooed by squeamish and soft-boiled natures are included in this domain. There is a rumor abroad, moreover, that psychopathology advocates the removal of repressions; the very repressions which all parents in an attempt to subdue "Old Adam" have so diligently planted and nurtured in the minds of their children. It is supposed that psychoanalysis...
...Expensive cars are grouped together on a carpet floor of the exhibition building. Soft-voiced salesmen, in tuxedos, point out the glories...