Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These suggestions, however, do not mean that there ought to be no contact whatever between student boards of editors, and deans, faculty advisers, instructors in journalism and other officers. Far from it. Indeed, I believe that student editors will seek such advice and will appeal to maturer judgment to a far greater degree when such consultation is voluntary and spontaneous, than when they feel that the adviser or censor is their natural enemy and that it is part of the game to trick him by any legitimate or illegitimate means...
...service, punch of another for compound food tablets, another for a lecture, and yet another for a symphony. But gradually the music goes bad, the artificial air fouls, and the great god machine deteriorates quickly to utter non-function, vomiting its inhabitants up dark passages to death from unaccustomed contact with fellow creatures, or from the unexpurgated air of the earth's surface...
Students of the period will find the book a stimulating biography of the man who was the lone break in the chain of Stuart monarchy from Elizabeth to William of Orange. Those less familiar with the complex seventeenth century will enjoy contact with a singular personality...
...blood of a haemophile does not congeal normally upon contact with the air, and thus the slightest wound leads to profuse bleeding, due to the extreme retardation of the process vulgarly called "healing." Now it happens that from the haemophilic House of Hesse-Darmstadt have sprung the last of the Russian Tsarinas, Alexandra, and the present Queen Victoria Eugénie of Spain. To each of these exalted mothers came the bitter pang of recognizing in her first born son a haemophile...
...Keyserling have turned toward the Orient for destruction and salvation of the Occident. Far less seriously, Paul Morand, scintillating French diplomat-novelist, shows the East has much to offer the West, and the West something to the East, but that incompatibility of mind and heart will prevent any contact close enough for destruction or salvation...