Word: tenderable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late in the period, Joe Hindle, wing on the Puritan second line, drove a fast one past the Eli net tender after an assist by Dan Burbank...
...need of relief is bullnecked, freckle-browed Reginald Marsh, whose two panels, one showing muscular workmen loading mail from spiral chutes to a waiting train, the other of an ocean liner transferring mail to a tender in New York harbor, were the first to be completed, set up and accepted in the new Washington Post Office Department Building in Washington...
...forget who pays for the theatre tickets when two langorous eyes are pleading. It is the duty of every Harvard man, and every man throughout the country, to maintain his own integrity this year, to be firm in the face of the fiercest or most insidiously tender appeals, and find himself, on the night of December thirty-first when this year climbs into history, still a self-respecting bachelor...
...Drang N. Osten, the promising young author who published "Big Man on Campus" in 1934 has turned to the college enviroment again as the background for a tender and beautiful novel, dealing with a highly emotional graduate student in a woman's college who had to use the museum and library of a neighboring male institution for her research. More fundamentally, however, Mr. Osten has faced squarely the problem which Leap Year presents to young women one time in every four years...
...arrives and she knows she must ask one or the other for good and all. With intense symbolism he reduces all humanity into one molten mass and pours the whole over the stones that obstruct the way of this simple girl. In passages of lyric beauty he describes the tender scenes on the bench before the ivy covered library, and with equal power, the metropolitan night life that the heroine finds in the company of the irrepressible Reggie. The conclusion is the only possible one for such a situation and Osten presents it steruly, fiercely, intensely-suicide...