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...during the past six days and I am aware of distinct improvement in my hearing, not only when using it, but when I lay it aside in my home. I find that I hear best with the lever of the transmitter on the stop next but one to the 'soft' end of the scale...
That Major Moore's new passing game for the football aspirants has caused more than local attention among newspaper men, is evidenced by the fact that eight photographers with moving picture machines were present at Soldiers Field for the daily practice yesterday. On account of the soft ground practice was suspended for all the squad except those who consented to entertain the camera...
...backers of the Theatregoers' Club know now that the undergraduate mind must be soothed and not forced. Yesterday they held another meeting without fireworks or gun play. A soft spring breeze etherized the Faculty Room of the Union, there was no hint of unconstitutionalism. Harvard snoozed and smiled, voted and assented to the same names it had protested against last week. It was a victory of tact over pressure, common sense over legal foolishness. The undergraduate temper must not be trified with...
Presently a number of chairs skidded slightly along the soft carpet as the sitters stood up to welcome the Premier and the Marshal. Premier Herriot, marching to the head of a long council table, requested the company to be seated. Marshal Foch placed a large portfolio of documents on the table and sat down...
...lady's necklace ?" Now I didn't know the answer to that, so I looked at him puzzled for a while, then I thought of it. Td rather have pyjamas,' I told him, and he went away." The Irish literary school has its great men: soft-voiced, indefinite Yeats, grandiose and pompous Dunsany, brittle and quarrelsome Shaw, half-mad and experimenting Joyce; but here is a soul that springs from the folkways of the world, to whom all the humdrum affairs of life take on the gold cloaks and the swords of legendry, who sees elves dancing...