Word: softly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ship at Los Angeles next month, at the cost of missing three weeks' work. To stay-at-home students, this "cost" sounded farcical. Who would do any studying, any work, on a joyride to 35 foreign countries with a lot of professors who had signed up for nice soft berths? But stay-at-homes knew not whereat they snorted. Some weeks ago the seagoers were obliged to file their choice of .studies and many a bundle handled by grumbling roustabouts on the Holland-American pier last week, was heavy with textbooks, dictionaries, notepaper, study-lamps. "Hard work...
...lifelong vegetarian, stocky, muscular, soft-voiced, with a shock of greying hair and a flowing Windsor necktie, Mr. Kellogg has been an outdoor man all his days. On his valley ranch in California he grows corn twelve feet high, according to his less skillful neighbors, by singing...
...dawdled through the first set, managing to win it, 6-4, only because Lacoste obviously expected to be beaten and made errors. Lacoste's game has always irritated Tilden. It is a suave game, a soft-spoken game of placements that look easy because the man who reaches for them looks so awkward-of strokes that a hard-hitting player can kill only if he is very careful. Last year Lacoste reached match-point four times before Tilden beat him. The champion was teasing, people said; he gave away points to get an incentive...
...good publishing there cannot be too much, and the present volume introduces a new house under an old name.* Chief among the tokens that this will be a house of distinction is its announcement that its public offerings will not be swaddled, as is the current fashion, in soft bales of superlative adjectives and the ejaculations of self-advertising pre-reviewers. The election of Mr. Cabell as first to bear the new John Day insignium, in a limited edition (3,000 copies), is evidence that the publishers intend kindly towards fine writing, and the book's artistic execution intimates...
That usually it is found about 70 ft. underground where it is mined like soft coal, or in surface deposits (called gypsite) where it is scooped up by shovels as in strip coal mining...