Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that Nazi propaganda has gone far towards maiming the current cinema in Germany, there are many less recent productions, readily available at slight expense, whose worth goes undisputed. Even the silent films made by such artists as Emil Jannings and Conrad Veidt display a subtlety of touch seldom if ever matched in the Hollywood mill...
...tempting-looking lemon rind in one of the glasses. In the way of wall hangings the decorator had draped a tapestry over the bulletin board, and above it in a neat row along the window-sill were arranged the contents of a well-stocked library. The personal touch in these decorations had been achieved by the presence of a sponge doggy peering down from the mail...
Three hundred years of experiment, largely at cross purposes, has left the language requirements of Harvard College a structure ready to crumble, like the Bourbon regime, at the first touch of reason. They have intruded their chaos into the distinction between bachelors of arts and bachelors of science until it amounts, essentially, to nothing more than an innocence of Latin. On the other hand, they permit the graduation each year of a large body of men without real knowledge of any language or literature save their own. The situation has come to be complicated by so many factors, obscured...
...climax an undefeated season in the touch football league, the Eliot House team downed Wright College, the Yale College representative, 30 to 24 Saturday morning on Soldiers Field. The game, originally stated for Friday, was postponed because of the Yale team's detainment for late classes...
...acting in the films or whether it is due to some innate ability in Mr. Baer, is a problem for individual solution. Myrna Loy and Walter Buston turn in their usual creditable performances, and Otto Kruger manages, in spite of the natural limitations of his trite role, to touch the high spots from time to time...