Word: contact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will please the thoughtful undergraduate who looks beyond the dead-line of commencement, as well as his elder, the graduate, to learn of the formation of an undergraduate and graduate committee to deal with the problem of graduates' day. It is its duty to bring the alumni in direct contact with current college conditions, to make over their mental pictures of Harvard to fit the circumstances of time. It is tremendously important that Harvard be coordinated by an understanding graduate body. In the past there has been too much talk and too little comprehension...
...Archbishop of his church in North America, and hence presiding prelate of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas, Manhattan. He had with him papers from Russia to prove it. It was in an effort to make clear his position to Platon, the temporary Archbishop, that he had suffered his humiliating contact with the asphalt. Archbishop Platon had simply clapped his hands and shouted in Russian: "Throw him out!" The disgruntled Kedrovsky, a naturalized U. S. citizen, at once filed suit against Archbishop Platon. Thus began an interminable, ludicrous and involved dispute (TIME...
Haled to court, Mr. Johnson said: "In trying to keep him from hitting me with a crank handle, my hand accidentally came into contact with the lower part...
...this reason that we have thought it wise to suggest, though it is not actually demanded, to contestants that they select us their subject some phase of that life with which they are actually in contact at the time of writing rather than a topic, however great its possibilities, which is totally unrelated to college atmosphere...
...submarine from naval warfare. This incident lends definiteness to the movement current in England against the submarine, caused immediately by a series of submarine disasters in the British, American, and Japanese navies, and fundamentally by the unpleasant experience the British nation had with submarines during the war. Such intimate contact with the German U-boats has evidently warped English public opinion into disregarding other menaces which make the worst type of submarine warfare seem like child's play...