Word: contacte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obvious that your editors have had little or no contact with numbers of the colored race...
...down the west coast of Mexico, battling yellow-tails, striped pargo, bluejacks, broomtailed groupers, losing a big shark. At the Equator, the usual elaborate horseplay for "pollywogs" who had never crossed it before was conducted by the "shellbacks." Chief pollywog was Secretary Stephen Early, the Press's sole contact with the President. Chief shellback: Franklin Roosevelt...
...Congressman's delight, TVA Employe Charles Hoffman testified that he had to forgo a dinner date with his best girl because she used to be Arthur Morgan's secretary, hence might constitute an unauthorized "contact." Upshot was that Dr. Morgan or any other witness designated by Senator Donahey may henceforth talk to TVA employes without hindrance from TVA bosses...
...absolute zero region. Viscosity is "fluid friction" or degree of stickiness. Even pure water has some viscosity. But about 2° above absolute zero, liquid helium has so little stickiness that - as several cryogenic experimenters have found - "rather phenomenal surface films" will spread over any surface brought in contact with it. These films will, in fact, climb right out of the liquid and ascend to considerable heights against gravity...
...years after British mutineers colonized Pitcairn Island in 1790 the islanders had only occasional contact with the outside world through visiting boats...