Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thumb and little finger touch across the palm while the three other finders are held straight. †The Geneva World Conference for Reduction and Limitation of Armaments also adjourned without substantial achievement (TIME, June...
Cherbourg has no natural port, yet some 900 liners a year touch there, most of them unloading onto tenders. The town has protected them with an outside breakwater 27 mi. long, but slowly lost traffic to the great port of Havre up the coast. In 1926 the Cherbourg Chamber of Commerce, fat with embarkation and debarka tion fees paid by U. S. tourists, began to carve out a real harbor with an inside breakwater and two deep-water piers. It raised a huge $2,500,000 Gothic passenger terminal topped by a tower bearing the arms of the City...
...appointment when his father. New Mexico's only Representative, offered him a government job in Washington. After three weeks he quit the service to try newspaper work, in Washington. Savannah, Richmond. Back in Washington again as correspondent of the Chicago Record-Herald, his job was "to keep in touch with all the members of one state delegation in Congress, and I achieved an intimate and disillusioning knowledge of these gentlemen and their affairs." After eight years as editor of the F. J. Haskin newspaper syndicate, Fergusson began to pine...
...Washington's watchword. But the President put in many an hour discussing the world situation with Bernard Mannes Baruch, Norman Hezekiah Davis, Federal Reserve Governor Eugene Black, and many another who marched in & out of the White House. By cable and telephone the President kept in constant touch with Secretary of State Hull at the World Economic Conference in London...
...Paris, Psychologist Henri Pieron measured the amount of light which made him see, the amount of noise which made him hear, the amounts of energy which stirred his senses of taste, smell, touch. He examined the brains of beasts and men and concluded, he said in Chicago last week, that for every kind of outside impulse to which man is sensitive there is a particular, infinitesimal cell in his brain. We do not see ultraviolet light or feel infrared heat simply because we have no brain cells to receive those impressions. The impressions which do stimulate our brain affect...