Word: softly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...UP?The soft accents and the hard hearts of Carolina hill folk expressing a primitive patriotism when feud hatred is drowned by the bugle...
...What this candidate really believed and would like to have said was that he was wholly and strongly opposed to the antivivisection movement, that he considered it the worst sort of nonsense, that anti-vivisectionists generally are misguided, soft-headed people who are working against the real interests of humanity and checking the advance of science...
...make this country blind to the need for efficient land and sea force. But even if it is natural, it is not likewise sensible. The lesson which the war taught--that unpreparedness is infinitely costly both in lives and gold--should not be relegated to the dust of time. Soft-headed pacifists are as harmful in peace as in war. To reawaken the slumbering interest in the value and the need of an efficient navy, this day, the birthday of Theodore Roosevelt, has again been set apart as Navy Day. In Boston and Brooklyn and other Navy Yard cities...
...Edison in his latest interview explodes as usual into flying criticisms of the soft-headed youth of this lax age. As usual he is interesting, but interesting particularly in his inability to fathom psychological intricacies as he has fathomed the mysteries of mechanical invetion. It is easy to put faith in his prophetic vision when he says that the immense development of hydro-eletric power now in progress may lead within a score of year to a four hour working day. But when he prophecies that the younger generation will "spend that shortness basely" few who have either faith...
...purely professional point of view toward military activities. Last year in a special article for the CRIMSON, General Edwards sounded the call to arms oy insisting that no college man could "maintain his self-respect" if he failed actively to prepare for the "next war" and by denouncing as "soft, mushy propaganda" the sentiment which put the ideal of peace above any other. General Pershing seems of somewhat the same opinion but has been more guarded in proposing that a "daily routine of practical exercises . . . should be included in all colleges...