Word: tenderable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made in the past to include among these branches a professional school of Engineering, such attempts have generally failed. The only Graduate School of Engineering which is today a branch of the American university tree is the Graduate School of Engineering of Harvard University, and it is but a tender shoot only recently nursed back to life...
...three girls whose maturation is intertwined with the events of 1914-1919. Their blood-red songs electrify a barroom full of drunks in stirring manner, and later the whole bunch does a through job of massacring some White first-aid workers. There is thus very little of the tender or the suave, but the proletarian vigor is abundant...
...sufferers, aged, experienced and tried; in them we see Shakspere bending over the joys and sorrows of youth. This we sense through a total characterization, through a feeling and a presence, rather than by incident and statement. For over youth's beauty and love is shed a clear and tender luminosity not elsewhere in his writings. Power and glory are the master's as he puts the last touches on the canvas and gives over his works to his age and to all time...
...Canada's Price Bros. & Co. began a mighty career in lumber, later branched into paper. Its own printed currency was long accepted locally as legal tender. Were Price Bros. banknotes circulating today they would find few takers. Competetive ferocity in a traditionally ferocious industry ground down newsprint prices from the post-War $110 per ton to a Depression $40. Short on profitable U. S. contracts, long on overhead, Price Bros. defaulted interest payments on its bonds in 1932. Promptly mustered was a bondholders' protective committee chairmanned by Boston's W. (for Willard) Eugene McGregor, who had been...
...obvious answer is that the legislature, controlled by the powerful mill interests, has seen fit to object to the probing finger of publicity on its most tender spot--conditions in the mills. As in the West Virginia coal mines of a few years back, and the Tennessee mines and Louisiana sugar plantations of today, the working conditions of the men and women employed is often appalling. The Moody case is an instance of the rigorous censorship which is kept on all unfavorable reports of what is going on below the Mason-Dixon Line...