Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However those who had any contact with him often felt that Professor Gilson's choice of field was a comparatively unimportant accident. As is so often the case with a great personality what he taught about Aquinas or Abelard, interesting though it was, acted merely as a bridge from his mind to those of his listeners. With communication once established first papers for citizenship in the super national, super temporal country of cultivated minds were quickly passed across. Yet, though Professor Gilson fought against Germany without a trace of hate, his type of mental distinction is very French. Only...
Hankow. Strangely enough th Nationalists who had ousted the British from their concession ai Hankow found this valuable property a white elephant. Local Chinese merchants who habitually dealt through the British banks discovered their contact and means of trading with the outside world cut off. Manufacture, commerce, shipping were at a standstill. The few Britons who remained had barricaded themselves in a steel bank vault. Soon blotchy hysterical posters appeared: "Death to the British slaves who are trying tc strangle us by stopping our commerce...
...Business School believes that as a business school it should introduce into its regular courses what has now become one of the half dozen largest industries in the country. The number of persons engaged in it is relatively small, but the motion picture industry is now in close contact with and has an important and direct influence on a large proportion of the public in the United States...
Things do not look so good for the University matmen. M. I. T. is fresh from her 19-8 victory over Tufts, a contact in which she gained two falls and three decisions. Harris the 145-pound Technology star is a threat which only Lifrak injured star of the Columbia meet, could ward off. The rugged little grappler is disabled with a strained shoulder muscle which puts him on the shelf tonight...
...nausea for himself, a violent tragedy causes to be brought forth from his rage and his despair the question. "why?"--"This 'why' remained standing before him like a pillar, cleaving the distant fog, and toward that pillar he would have to wander involuntarily and almost unconsciously." Laudin comes into contact with Louise Dercum, a famous actres, in whose personality seems to be mirrored all life; through her he attempts to grasp an answer to this "Why," but in the end finds only unconsciousness and nothingness. He goes home. On the other side of a door is his wife...