Word: softly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everyone knows, there is the chapter of shorn Colombia, spunky Panama, and the big U. S. In 1903 Panama revolted from its mother-country Colombia, declared itself independent. Colombia accused President Roosevelt of aiding the revolutionaries because he wanted the Canal Zone. Indeed, the President who advocated the soft word and the big stick, was quoted as saying: "I took Panama." Colombia demanded an indemnity, which was promptly refused. A decade later, President Wilson negotiated a $25,000,000 indemnity treaty with Colombia, but the U. S. Senate refused to comply. Finally, in President Harding's administration, the Senate...
That it is a calcium sulphate rock, colorless and rather soft; that it is almost unknown to the general public, although widely used...
Machine builders have always wanted a steel that had a soft core with a hard surface or "skin." Such a steel would furnish an enduring wearing surface and yet be easy to shape. It would be invaluable to makers of motor cars, typewriters, adding, sewing, knitting machines-wherever wearing parts are needed. Metallurgists have produced soft, shapable steels. They have devised hard steels which were expensive to "work." But not till last week did any one announce a steel with all the desiderata of the machine builder...
...deplored when "denture" more pleasantly describes the "exquisite creations of the master dentist of today" (Dr. Harry J. Homer of Pittsburgh); that every time a child eats a lollypop "he might as well say goodbye to one of his teeth," and for "every man who habitually eats soft, mushy foods" the human race is one step nearer utter toothlessness.* "Diet is the most important factor in keeping the teeth ... in good health" (Dr. S. E. Butler of Tokyo, Japan). Some artificial dentures (plates and bridges) were shown, which deserved the description of "exquisite engineering in miniature...
...down I'm saved.' "We held a grand and glorious meeting then and were living on the Lord's love when they found us." There indeed was material for one more of the half-hymn-half-folksongs that Kentucky mountaineers sing in their cabins to the soft thrumming of guitars.* They sing the death of Floyd Collins, who perished in Sand Cave at Cave City, Ky., in February 1925-a haunting, primitive, narrative dirge that begins: Oh, come, all you young people, And listen while I tell Of the fate of Floyd Collins...