Word: tenderly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ability to breath air by means of lungs rather than to purify the blood by means of gills meant success in escaping from the water to the land. Love of offspring and tender care for the young gave the weak and puny mammals of long ago the ability to triumph over much stronger and more powerful reptiles like the dinosaur...
...clock this evening Philips Brooks House, will tender a reception to all students in the University who are Christian Scientists. The entertainment will be informal, short speeches being followed by light refreshments...
...features of the meeting was an exhibit in the Kosais Temple of dental appurtenances. One hundred and sixty-four firms made displays. Dental tools, dental chairs, gold and silver for fillings, devices and contrivances, including the universally dreaded ogre of the modern world?the buzzing drills that find tender spots in all civilized mouths. The exhibit because of the precious metals included, was valued at $2,000,000 and eight detectives guarded it night...
Particularly cattlemen, who have been almost ruined by recent conditions, want permits to graze in the public for perpetuity with fees only large enough to cover the Government's administration expenses. The Forestry Bureau is unwilling to surrender the nation's forest reserves to the tender mercies of the hard pressed cattlemen. The other chief point on which the contest will be waged is why the Government has delayed undertaking irrigation projects authorized by Congress (see CABINET...
...work into the tiny crevices left between running their newspapers and student government boards, winning votes, signing petitions, leading cheers, etc. He is called the "flash," the "whiz," the "shark," the man who can, with little visible effort, rip and rend the more indigestible portions of the curriculum into tender shreds; the man who singles out tough courses for the sheer delight of picking high marks out of them; the man, the exceptional man, who would snatch at an honors course if only his university offered...