Word: tenderly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most mothers overflow with pride when their infant sons begin to toddle across the room from chair to chair at the tender age of ten months. Last week in Chicago, little Harmon Loeb, aged five weeks, walked unaided across a room. Dr. Carl Loeb sees in his son's feat no miracle, says.: "We bathe Harmon every day for ten or fifteen minutes in ultraviolet rays [which] help the blood absorb the calcium in food, thereby building bone. The baby is given a series of exercises three times a day designed to strengthen the muscles . . . sleeps on a bread...
...rising generation of Spaniards, suffering from the taunts of soft tender-hearted foreigners, has objected. They wish their bullfights; they wish the bull to attack the horse; but they will accept an attack involving less gore, less evisceration. To this end horses have been provided with experimental steel armor, led into rings, offered to angered bulls. But from the standpoint of all (save the horses) steel armor has been a failure. The bulls have refused to bruise their horns against the unyielding protection...
...Senior Council, here by tender our resignation, to take effect at once...
...limit which happens to be under that of the average undergraduate, has apparently given the student a legal right to drive a car. Therefore in forbidding automobiles at Princeton on the count of reckless driving, the university appears to take the stand that pursuit of learning and not tender years is responsible for accidents. Such perverse application of results of modern education is hardly plausible, even from a rigid dean...
...that may be his lack, for in what he could understand he was struck by elements of really great drama and penetrating insight. The difficulties of language are as smoke surrounding a flame. Pirandello's thought, tinged with a profound yet tender pessimism, is in the truly grand manner. If he fails, it is only because he has attempted too much. And again his failure may be those of the translator and reviewer...