Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, sole U. S. purchasing agent for the Soviet Government and the International General Electric Co. of New York have concluded a deal whereby $25,000,000 worth of U.S. electric apparatus may be sent to Russia within the next five years. Thus was pointedly marked a commercial rapport between the two countries. The Russian press was jubilant over the deal; Economic Life of Moscow talked about a breach in the ''credit blockade...
...Tomlinson, who is to be remembered for his recent lecture at the Harvard Union, writes in the current Harper's Magazine on a subject which is evidently close to his heart the rapport of Britain and America. He approaches the subject, however, from a new angle--not with the old words concerning common heritage and future, and the friendship of the Anglo-Saxo, race-facts, which if they be true at all are too true to need repeating--but with a dire prediction of the consequences should America engage in a war with England. That it would be a large...
...Rapport, Polish, 22, of New York City, challenged Mr. Kelly to a polar marathon, claimed that Mr. Kelly's pretentions to the squatting championship were fraudulent in the extreme, inasmuch as he (Mr. Rapport) had once sat on a Parisian flagpole for 21 days. One Hugo Bihler, just-arrived German immigrant, who speaks no English, also challenged for the Sitting Sweepstakes, as did an unidentified Bostonian. Cried Mr. Kelly, belligerently, "Let those guys pick their poles and sit!" But none...
...main theme is the simple story of Hans, an idiot boy, who at first is feared and loathed by Martin Scheffer, his father, but when Emma, the nurse, undertakes to bring the two together on the occasion of the child's fourteenth birthday, there is an ensuing successful rapport, and she loses hold over her old charge. But this strain is supported by the introduction of a supplementary force, for Hans sees the marionettes play Faust, and these dolls soon people his world, absorb his life. Mr. Muir has used the intricate pattern of themal relationships in the fugal form...
...when faculty existence could be negatived by the vote of those who would not brook certain faculty legislation is a part of medieval, not modern history. Yet the day of rapport between undergraduate and faculty is apparently more a part of modern history than many perennial pessimists would care to admit...