Word: softly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year or two." "Too long," said Governor Fuller, "our section of the country has stuck to anthracite while other sections never use it." "Anthracite" said Mr. Hammond, "is a luxury and not to be indulged in at too great a cost. We have plenty of substitutes" ?meaning bituminous (soft) coal, coke, fuel-oil. That was the lesson Governor Fuller desired to have expounded...
...Because anthracite miners and operators would be endangering their industry by a strike. Soft coal and other substitutes would gain a greater foothold on the market...
...Because the public is little likely to suffer, with large supplies of anthracite above ground, and plentiful supplies of soft coal and other substitutes available...
Last week, the Interstate Commerce Commission denied a petition for a 10% flat reduction on anthracite coal freight rates-something which the miners had asked as an aid to getting their wage increase without cost to consumers. But the Commission did order reductions in the rates on soft coal of the "smokeless," low-volatile variety-one of the substitutes for anthracite...
Then Teacher sits down. Another sharp command. Into their places shoot the children, sit erect, silent, stock still- still and silent as heaving, panting children can sit. The panting and the heaving cease. Silence settles down over the room like a soft rain. Nerves relax. Ebulliency is gone. Repose remains. Then back to lessons again...