Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...designated administrative head of the affairs temporal of our universal body and of its spiritual concerns too, in so far as they may be inseparable from kinship with the former, I am convinced it is my duty, and so should be my desire, to establish every possible point of contact with the different agencies and various phases of our legitimate Church life. It seems to me nothing could be more right and so nothing more reasonable-nothing could be more necessary and so nothing more desirable...
Anyone who attempts to do business through an interpreter is handicapped so heavily that his chances of selling are seriously damaged. With radio, airships, and automobiles bringing the peoples of the world into closer and more intimate contact every day, the world is moving rapidly toward a universal language but, until all peoples speak and understand the same tongue, knowledge of languages is the essence of success in international trade...
...modern education so closely to them. Mr. Aswell forgets that, though he be at an impressionable stage while at college, the student cannot hope to gain a formula for future existence and a road map from college. He can get less easily catalogued gifts experience of mental freedom, the contact with cultivated minds (nor are they all dull or completely parched), the ability to adjust interests on some saner scale, the small but glorious gleam of reality which even the barest learning or the continued application of tobacco, friendship, and intelligence sometimes engenders. Mr. Aswell has too much faith...
...whole, I think the writer was misinformed. I have been in charge of relief work in Delray and we have cared for about 200 refugees from Hollywood, and have been brought in close contact with the situation. Conditions generally are not nearly so bad as your article would lead one to believe...
...wealth of material here for anyone who is puzzled what to do in the way of providing a fresh program each week," he went on. "It is not only to teach the boys team play and sportsmanship that these service clubs are formed, but to give them contact with college men. In my estimation, the value of this work is just as great for the leader as for the boys. It teaches the college men to be punctual, prepared, and interested in his work...