Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when their work was done. Planes catapulted from the battleships sought to repel these two types of attack but were greatly outnumbered. Though obviously favored by perfect weather and the arbitrary plan of the "battle," the Navy's overhead forces had easily "stolen the show." As a final touch, a plane from the Saratoga equipped with a special hook flew up to the silvery dirigible Los Angeles which had been idling aloft all day, and attached itself, exchanged messages, detached, glided back to the Saratoga-first time such a feat had been attempted over the ocean...
...clients. I told him NO. Later he asked if I would represent his firm in legal matters. I assured him I'd undertake any legitimate legal work. I received $500 as a retainer. ... I told these men all I could do would be to keep in touch with the situation, let them know when bids were to be made. ... Of course anybody could have done this work. ... I never promised to get any of them contracts. ... I began to think something was wrong along toward the end of the year. ... Of course I do not know what Malloy...
Prime purpose of the institute-like that of the Seaman's Society of London whose patron is sea-minded King George and at whose annual banquet last fortnight the Prince of Wales presided-is to keep sailors from losing touch with religion. But the large part of its work has become to provide a moral hotel (1,500 rooms and beds) and amusement place (10,000 visitors daily) for seamen ashore, to help them in physical need, to locate them for worried families...
...ability to purify wine, which was the unicorn's greatest function in man's eye, he could also purify water for the forest animals. Upon discovering that a snake had poisoned a pool by spraying it with venom, all animals would await the arrival of a unicorn. He would touch the water with his horn, cleanse...
...plan of having a field day such as this one, originated when the Association of Class Secretaries sought for a better means of keeping the graduates, and especially those graduates whose sons are now in college, in close touch with the affairs of the University. Several of the classes, which have celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversaries. had tried the scheme and found it successful, in getting the graduates together in the odd years between the major anniversaries...