Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return to Cambridge on Saturday for the first of the Fathers and Sons days which are planned as annual gatherings for graduates with sons enrolled in the University. The plan is a new one recommended by the association of Class Secretaries, when former attempts to keep graduates in touch with the University failed...
Believing as he still does that he is God's anointed, the whilom All Highest feels a duty, a pious obligation to preach. Constantly in touch with leading German historians and theologians, he often turns up curious bits of lore. In a recent hearthrug sermon, details of which leaked out last week, the onetime War Lord revealed matter extremely pertinent to the Crucifixion of Jesus which startled his household at Doorn and many another throughout Germany...
Special significance was attached to this incident by Poles, because the present Pope was formerly Nuncio at Warsaw, maintains closest touch with prominent Polish Catholics. The daily Gazeta Warszawska said editorially: "Ambassador Willys must cease to be a Protestant missionary while he remains in Poland...
...glowing recital of the Ochs ideals, prowess, personality. To Mr. Sulzberger his chief is "the perfect newspaperman." "He is simple and direct, and able to strip the most difficult problem of its complexities and put his finger on the underlying and motivating facts-the news angle becomes apparent his touch. ... His greatest delight is to find an insignificant paragraph which under his prodding develops into a first-page story the following...
...shows the peasants of the steppes first resisting, finally adopting modern agricultural methods in their work. Like all contemporary Russian cinemas, it is dishonest. The victory is won too easily; better times break out like sunlight at the touch of Soviet educators, while the real, secret, breath-taking drama now going on in Russia?the test of a government which has by no means proved its ability to keep faith with its policies?is suppressed. But Old and New is interesting in spite of what it leaves out. It is wonderfully photographed in the flat, wheat-colored daylight...