Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First National movie school at Burbank, California. Those who prove themselves valuable will be given five-year contracts with the film corporation with a salary of $75 a week for the first six months, which will be gradually increased so that during the last year of the contact they will each be receiving at least $750 a week...
...life of us boys, he was a very real companion." Charles Kingsley was a kinsman, and "the first person to give me the idea that religion made men efficient." His clinical work in a London Hospital, graphically described, stirred searching questions which cut deep into his life. Accidental contact with D. L. Moody, "down a dark street in Shadwell on my way from a maternity case", proved a turning point, rooting in him the ideal that "loyalty to a living Leader was religion, and that nightly service in the humblest life was the expression...
...Harvard has been, more fortunate perhaps than any other university in escaping the formalism of the large academic factory and, in addition to possessing several men who by virtue of their own attractions have gathered a following, has introduced the tutorial system, calculated to bring the student into closer contact with his mentors. But outside Harvard, in the majority of great universities, opportunity for intimacy is small and immensity has crushed personal contact, admitted to be the most valuable bond between those who want to learn and those whose duty it is to teach...
...ancient and popular supersitition that contact with a toad brings warts to human membranes was long ago scientifically disproved...
...fixed hour or an hour and a half. When Memorial Hall was very crowded eighteen men were seated at a table seating twelve and they were expected as they came, in to shove up next to the men already seated. This was supposed to bring every man into direct contact with the other seventeen That seemed to work pretty well...