Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blood of a haemophile does not congeal normally upon contact with the air. Thus the slightest wound leads to profuse bleeding, due to retardation of the process called "healing...
...press, intimated that Harvard is about to start small university colleges. He rightly maintains that the new "houses" are not colleges at all. In this he is right. I have said in that report: "It is purposed to divide Harvard undergraduates into houses where they may life in closer contact with resident scholars. To many, the plan seems less significant than the wide publicity given it would indicate. There seems to be no real desire to disintegrate the student body in respect to the teaching, which is to be university given rather than house given. Nor, apparently, are the colleges...
...sold at a loss in 1890. He moved with his mother to Munich, where she insisted that he must work at something. He sold fire insurance, writing novels by stealth until fame came. Like his great contemporary in philosophy, Oswald Spengler, his genius was fired most completely by contact with Mediterranean culture, and he repaid Italy with Der Tod in Vene dig (Death in Venice...
...Haskell Museum, housing the Oriental Institute's work, upon which much Chicago money is lavished, was exhibited the archaeological reseasch of Professor James Henry Breasted, whose red-bound ancient history many a school must study. Through its local Community Research Committee, the University makes its closest contact with the city. In the research committee's workshop were shown compilations of information of education, commerce, government,? labor, vice and the gangsterism for which Chicago is ill-famed, to which the University is a standing, striving antidote...
...Fordyce Blake, veteran Crusader scout, a class team ran through the formations of the Purple eleven, and then Teams A and B squared off against each other in a short dummy scrimmage. All the plays of the Crimson repertory were run through at top speed but there was no contact work...