Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night, and the steamer passage over will be made in orderly fashion on chartered ships assigned to various states. For example, Legionnaires from Iowa will sail on the Megantic. Meals in Paris, however, will be excepted from arrangement or routine. Over cafe and restaurant tables Legionnaires will make contact again with waiters to whom food is a poem, drink a philosophy and the tip a sum honorably earned -to be demanded, if necessary, as U. S. small businessmen demand payment of small bills...
...spent this winter at The Mayflower in Washington and while there of course came in contact with a number of gentlemen who lived at the hotel, and think I must have heard this winter, at least a dozen make the same comment, in regard to your biased political attitude...
Having so much in common both in tradition and in modern tendency, it in unfortunate that the Yale and Harvard clubs do not come into contact except in the informal joint concert in the fall on the evening of the Yale-Harvard football game. Given at this time, the importance of the concert as a noteworthy attraction is somewhat overshadowed by other social activities, and the program is composed entirely of old glees and popular songs which are fitted for such an occasion. Since this does not provide an opportunity for a presentation of the best work of both clubs...
Locarno followed the Dawes Plan; and security in Europe has measurably followed Locarno. It was only when Premier Macdonald pushed his earnest desire for world concord to the length of furthering a rapprochement with Soviet Russia that he lost contact with British public opinion and was obliged to resign the premiership. He remains the strongest single figure in the British Labor party, and may well become premier again. In the U. S. he will spend merely a short Easter vacation, will call upon President Coolidge, will speak only once, before the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan...
...times before it is transmitted over wires or through the air by radio. At the receiving end Mr. Baird places another revolving disc. Light playing through it rebuilds the cut-up picture. In the new Bell system, the received current is carried to an electrical contact apparatus mounted on a wheel. As the wheel revolves, the apparatus makes and breaks electrical contact 2,500 times per revolution. To each contact point runs a wire which picks up a bit of the current. These wires carry the current to 2,500 tiny squares of tin foil mounted behind the television screen...