Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administers the family budget with a close hand (though this may be proving too much) and yet devours TIME from cover to cover, and insists upon no less than two years subscription at a time. Is it necessary to say that this woman is perfectly healthy, except for a touch of hay fever. If this woman is a freak I believe the dictionaries will require a good deal of correcting. What do you think? MAYNARD L. GINSBURG...
...State college professors in one swoop and refused to convene the Mississippi Legislature for fear it would impeach him, "you know, I'm a trouble shooter. If anything goes wrong with this Farm Relief Act, I'm supposed to know about it right away. I keep in touch with the way people are thinking. I'm going to read all kinds of newspapers and magazines...
...maggots eat dead tissue and germs, but do not touch live flesh. This maggot habit the late Surgeon William Stevenson Baer applied to the treatment of festering wounds and bone diseases. He got astonishingly good results. Surgeons every- where are beginning to use the Baer technique...
...small-town bankers. No smalltown banks have crashed with such reverberations, even in proportion to their size as we have seen go in the cities. For ten years the city banks have been drawing from the country banks by their advertising, their claims to being in close touch with affairs and their stock market facilities and their claims that size makes strength...
...wholly a matter of mise-en-scene and photography. In the delightful zoo where a humorous elephant squirts a trunkful of water over a handsomely malignant tiger, and serene swans float by in the twilight, the influence of Rene Clair's romantic humor is paramount. If the Gallic touch cannot long survive translation to Hollywood at any rate it is charmingly present in this temperate fantasy...