Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every year a number of Harvard students go north with Dr. Grenfell and aid him in his work of taking medical aid and knowledge to the Eskimos. Every year he comes into contact with 10,000 people scattered along 600 miles on the Labrador coast and has carried on his work uninterruptedly for many years...
...leisure moments to persuade German Foreign Minister Stresemann and Polish Foreign Minister August Zaleski, to resume pourparlers for a German-Polish commercial entente which had seemed to be breaking down of late. Once again was seen the peculiar, inherent importance of League sessions-they bring into peaceful personal contact statesmen who might otherwise quarrel over the telegraph...
...Otto H. Kahn received ladies of the Girls' Service League of America at her home and a speaker flayed "lack of close contact between young people and their parents...
...TIME, Feb. 28, is one that makes me write you about such a statement, which anyone who has ever stayed in West Virginia any length of time will know is not true, and those who have not will be lead on the wrong track fearing they will come in contact with such people as stated by George Zweiger in Ohio's Coal...
...understood that electricity flows in currents measurable in pressure units. "Volts" and "voltage" were the work of Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), professor of experimental physics at the University of Pavia, Italy. His compatriot and contemporary, Luigi Galvani of Bologna, observing the spasms caused in dead frogs' muscles by contact with mixed metals and moisture had deduced that the muscles contained electricity. Volta examined the theory of "galvanism" and traced electricity, not to the muscles, but to the mixed metals and moisture. He piled pairs of silver and zinc discs together, with moist cloths between and a wire connecting...