Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college should be in close touch with a number of accredited schools both public and private and at their recommendation, checked possibly by special examinations or interviews, the college should exempt exceptional individuals from the common routine. Tentative experiments have been made in this direction by the college but they should be amplified and made permanent to provide recognized channels for the liberation of the mature individual from the unnecessary stupidity of the requirements designed for those not yet ready for educational privileges...
...should be obliged if you should get in touch with the military authorities of your department to take active steps...
...course, to the dependence of most periodicals on their advertising this fester has received little treatment. The only fault of the discussion in question is that it tends to disregard the more glaring flaws in modern advertising, and in general, to attack the problem with an inept touch which leaves the reader with little doubt that the work is really that of a housewife...
Nazi leaders were summoned to learn the substance of the speech but not even they were allowed to touch the manuscript. Complained one to reporters...
...Havana where U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles was calmly talking business. They wanted him to promise a lower U. S. tariff on sugar, and a U. S. guarantee to buy 2,000,000 tons a year. In exchange Cuba would lower tariffs on U. S. imports. Keeping in touch with the U. S. State Department by telephone, Mr. Welles steered wide on the subject of U. S. intervention. His calmness disarmed Cuba's Secretary of State Orestes Ferrara who suddenly bubbled over that the U. S. had promised to do "everything humanly and superhumanly possible" to keep Machado...