Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Utilities: "I consider this legislation a positive recovery measure. . . . The absentee management of unnecessary holding company control has lost touch with and has lost the sympathy of the communities it pretends to serve. ... A business that loses the confidence of its customers and the goodwill of the public cannot long continue to be a good risk for the investor...
John Winthrop was an alchemist but an enterprising, open-minded one. Born in 1606 at Groton, England, he had attended Dublin's Trinity College, later dabbled in the law, spent five years junketing about Europe, encountered many a scholarly personage with whom he kept in touch by correspondence in Latin. When, at 24, he followed his father to the New World, he was undismayed by the fact that the colonies had no college, no scientific society, laboratory or library. He imported the first library and the first apparatus. His was the idea for the first chemical stock company...
Amid a religious hush, the German youths swore, "We make ourselves answerable to Germany!" At Hamburg an added touch was to bestow on dedicated youths the quality of "young Siegfrieds...
...pipe organ, similar sounds depend on electric blowers. A separate pipe is required for each separate tone. Mechanism of the new instrument is all in the console, in a bed of magnets, coils and whirling disks. With the turn of a switch, the motor was on and at the touch of a key, electrical vibrations generated the sound through an ordinary amplifier...
...Said Liggett: "You'd better mind your own business. I always eat them this way at home." Famed among drugmen are Liggett's letters to the trade, invariably addressed "Dear Pardner." Sample: "... I now find myself burdened with an innate feel ing to again come in close touch with you. . . . P. S. Our Diarrhoea Cure is a great thing. Try it yourself. I have...