Word: softly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second hockey team yesterday proved its ability by defeating the Noble and Greenough School, 6-1. On the soft and watery ice of the Andover rink last Saturday, there was little chance to demonstrate the progress made so far this season...
Years ago Steiglitz saw the possibilities of photography as an artistic medium and set out to make a photograph a personal thing that should be adapted to different types-not a stiff, hard picture, but a soft, delicate thing, properly composed and balanced-with beauty of line and grace of movement, as in a fine painting...
...which Coolidge has taken from him. To the less partisan observers it seems that Johnson's chances depend on a "break." What prospects are there of such a break? An issue in Congress may provide it?but that is unpredictable. The only other major possibility now apparent is a soft coal strike next spring. The soft coal miners' wage contract will expire. A strike is likely. On Jan. 22 a convention of the United Mine Workers at Indianapolis will formulate their demands. If there should be a prolonged strike, it might seriously damage the Administration. To force a settlement distasteful...
...civil life, of course, jaw injuries are uncommon, and facial surgery is largely of the plastic type, dealing with the soft parts of skin and tissue. The chief drawback is the slowness of the process. A case may require a dozen operations before its discharge, for these things cannot be done in a single step. The anaesthesia and prevention of infection are of special importance. Much of the early War work was hampered by infection and lack of equipment. In plastic surgery flaps of skin and tissue are frequently moved from one part of the body to take the place...
...under a pressure of 130,000 Ibs. to the square inch, be frozen into a cake of ice so dense that it sinks in water. Mercury can be frozen under a pressure of 170,000 Ibs. Water can be injected into rocks under the same conditions until they become soft and gelatinlike. All of these processes are at present prohibitively costly. A synthetic tombstone would cost a billion dollars. But with the established fact of artificial mineral manufacture, we may look for a cheapening of the process until it becomes of commercial importance...