Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pass over Professor Wiener's sneer about the "journalistic status" of certain writers. Journalists must be excused for writing less and less about more and more, otherwise the poor public might lose touch with the profundities of modern research, and not endow the Great Minds with a lifetime (not to mention innumerable vacations and sabbatical years) in which to grow wiser and wiser...
...further proof, moreover, that Harvard Yard is the place to go to get in live touch with the Orient, a late report of the Institute indicates that it is now receiving 171 different Chinese current periodicals with 37 from Japan; which places it, in this respect, far in advance of any other American library. Now in possession of 86,651 volumes in the former language and 6,994 in the latter, the Library will continue its collecting of cultural books this year, principally in an effort to procure valuable Chinese ts'ung shu, collections of individual works, and especially those...
Because of an agreement with New York Central, the U. P. train had to stick to Twentieth Century's 17¾-hr. schedule from Chicago to New York. Loafing along at 60 m.p.h., it sprinted just once, between Buffalo and Batavia, to touch 112.5 m.p.h. and thereby equal the 41-year-old record of famed Engine No. 999, hauling the Empire State Express. M10001 cruised at half-throttle through the misty Mohawk Valley, stepped lightly down along the Hudson River to Mott Haven, where it stopped. From that point on it was ignominiously towed into New York...
...education, habits and vocabulary. Sennett distrusted such academic impedimenta as written scripts, insisted on his authors telling him their stories verbally. The post-War years 1924-26 were golden harvests for Mack Sennett. Then came the talkies and Sennett slapstick began to fade from public favor. The finishing touch was given by Walt Disney's ubiquitous Mickey Mouse...
...some fine plays were made on both sides; Princeton, however, determined to keek her advantage, carried the ball behind the line whenever it came near their goal. A good deal of valuable time was thus consumed unprofitably for both sides. Cushing, M. S., now secured a touch-down, but when Captain Cushing attempted to punt the ball out, it was carried by the wind into Princeton's hands. Shortly after, time was called, and the game was Princeton's by one goal, to two touch-downs for Harvard...