Word: softly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Arnold Horween '20 continued his soft pedal policy with the University football squad yesterday. A light dummy scrimmage, together with a session on down-the-field work, constituted the afternoon's workout...
...vacuum-cleaner through long flexible tubes. One man led the mule and cart between ripe cotton bushes. At each side of the mule walked a man with a tube from the vacuum pump strapped to a wrist. These men darted their hands at ripe cotton; the tubes with a soft hiss sucked the white bolls from brittle pods. A swift-handed picker can gather several hundred pounds of cotton daily with this device...
Last week the townspeople and critics moved through the Institute gallery with a soft murmuring whistle that is peculiar to museums and to the carpeted anterooms of cinema theatres. Near the three prize-winning pictures-a "Still Life" by Henri Matisse, "Motherhood" by Anto Carte, Andrew Dasburg's "Poppies"-there were small, stirring ponds of faces. There were puddles of them under many other pictures: Italian Antonio Donghi's study of three enigmatic figures, called "Carnival," which received first honorable mention; "Two Figures," languid, graceful girls painted by Bernard Karfiol of Manhattan, honorable mention. Then there were...
...beginning of the current gridiron season the intersectional clash with Indiana was regarded as one of the soft spots on the Harvard schedule. But the showing the Hoosier's have made recently against such strong teams as Minnesota and Notre Dame has caused experts to take a different view toward today's contest, and the University eleven is conceded at best an even chance of victory...
...with , trepidatant that one attempts to express via the printed word and still more particularly via a daily newspaper any appreciation of beauty. Recriminations are too easy and accusations too ready; even now the words of the colored gentlemen, to the effect that "they are SO soft" ring in journalistic ears...