Word: contacte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Imperceptibly interest was already shifting from the tables of the diplomats at Nyon to blue Mediterranean waters at a spot near Cartagena. There Leftist Spanish divers claimed to have established contact with a "pirate" submarine paralyzed on the sea bottom by depth charges...
...recommended preventives: C. Reading "psychologically inspirational articles'' in newspapers, such as "Advice to the Lovelorn" by "Beatrice Fairfax" (whose real name is Marie Manning) fills "a need which we as physicians in public institutions are slow to recognize, namely, the desire of anxious persons to come in contact with the thoughts of others on daily problems...
...business of bringing in Chinese which I was told was very profitable and that a man called Joey Harper . . . had been passing through Los Angeles and while he was there in one of the cheaper houses he had for a neighbor an oil man whom I had to contact . . . and he told the oil man . . . that he ... was smuggling in Chinese, that they had been caught up with ... by a U. S. cutter and had to sink the boat with the Chinese and that he afterward went to Mr. Fleishhacker and got a lot of money...
...private institution that is not beholden to any governmental body for its continuance, may not appear on the surface of things. But in coming to Harvard every Freshman is forging an unrivalled opportunity to equip himself for life in the modern world. This opportunity may be gained from contact with books in the University libraries, with the many professors and tutors with whom he will associate, and with the men of his own age with whom he will sport and learn and frolic...
...House about ten are resident in the House, while the rest have temporary studies there. The student meets his tutor about once a week, eats with him occasionally, and is expected, in one way or another, to absorb a good deal of learning and to benefit from the intellectual contact. At the same time every upperclassman carries a regular schedule of courses...