Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Polo, unfortunately, is an expensive game," asserted Mr. Milburn, "but for large colleges it is as capable of paying its way as football. As a sporting spectacle it contains all the elements of speed, skill, and physical contact that are appreciated by an American audience...
...Near and Far East, and did much to develop the scholarly study of these regions in American Universities. After he gave up the conduct of History 1 in 1905, his teaching and writing centered more and more about recent diplomatic history. To undergraduates he brought a sense of fresh contact with the affairs of the wider world, while among graduate students he trained an active group of acknowledged experts in the history of international relations. Many students he inspired and guided to enter the foreign service of their country. Both students and colleagues found in him a firm friend...
What Lawrence Perry reports as the attitude west of the Alleghenies is likewise the attitude of practically every Harvard man with whom I came in contact in New York. Here, perhaps more than in Boston, we meet graduates of other colleges, and find our friends from Princeton particularly congenial to our tastes and views...
...they have become our servants. Even the thunderstorm is being used." Miss Royden then said that man has become a conquering spirit. He will not adapt himself to the world but will govern it. "A change has come, not into the universe or humanity; what has altered is the contact which is being established between the genius of man and the universe...
From this house will each day issue the myriad copies of Hearst's New York Journal (evening) and American (morning). It is alive with rollers, chutes, conveyors to carry copy, proof, type to contact points in the process of rushing news to newsboy. In the "fudge" room stand three linotype machines next to telegraph instruments where telegraphic flashes tell sudden death, discovery, disaster. From the machines, conveyors carry the type galley directly to the presses. News, newspapers think, should be gobbled hot. The American and Journal have every known device to sell it smoking...