Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roberts is a born leader, is beloved and respected by all with whom he comes in contact. Through his services to the Government he has come to be well-known in California, Wyoming, Denver, Washington, D. C., and of course in Philadelphia, where he is the leading member of the Bar, and a respected and honored citizen...
...acetylene. "Berthelot condenses it [acetylene] under the action of heat and behold, we have benzine," writes Premier Poincaré in the current Chimie et Industrie, French periodical. "He adds hydrogen and behold, there appears ethylene, which, united with water, will produce alcohol. He places it in contact with air and with an alkaline solution-and behold, acetic acid or vinegar. If I were to enumerate all his successful reconstructions I should never...
...tremendous purchases incidental to military operations, and are studying the broad principles of business administration rather than the details of any particular civilian industry. The purpose of the work being done by these officers, many of whom have already attained the rank of major, is to establish a contact with modern civilian business methods which the officers find indispensible, but cannot obtain by participation in civilian business firms...
There are two possible remedies to a situation which viewed in its broad aspects, and discrediting any petty sense of smug satisfaction, is certainly unfortunate. Either Harvard men through a tolerant and intelligent contact with men of other institutions, must come to the conviction that all good things are not centered in Cambridge, or they must sooner or later school themselves to an open minded acceptance of manners and methods strange, perhaps, but measured by a different standard quite as good...
Founded a year ago, the Institute is essentially a conference involving consideration of the questions arising from the contact of Eastern and Western civilizations. Professor Wilson, who travelled to Honolulu last summer with 40 other delegates from the United States, explained the function of the organization to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...