Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such a pronouncement coming from a man who is in the closest touch with the labor situation cannot but be received with the utmost apprehension at a time when it seems to be touch and go as to whether the forces making for recovery are likely to be permanent or transitory. Yet no thinking citizen can feel at heart otherwise than sympathetic to the demands of workers, coming, as they do, when prices are rising rapidly, and employers are anxious to keep down costs, of which wages are one of the largest items, in order to recoup themselves...
...recluse greybeards inhabiting the Law School and the Semitic Museum possess such a remarkable lack of knowledge of their job that they do not even get to bat. Even older men who are in constant communication with the undergraduate department in their own fields, have grown out of touch with undergraduate feelings and problems in the broader sense. That ideal adviser, the Yard proctor, exists in the minority...
...ridden at home. He made his speech of welcome over a special radio hookup. The customary five medals of honor for distinguished journalistic service were presented by the school to: The Melbourne (Australia) Argus, for being ". . . fair and tolerant, liberal . . . accurate . . . generous and kindly . . . progressive without losing touch with the past . . . eminent in Australia and throughout the English-speaking world." The Des Moines Register and Tribune for ". . . artistic and readable typography . . . sound and socially constructive service . . . journalistic enterprise and vigor." The Churchman ". . . for 130 years of highly intelligent and uncompromising editorial freedom and independence for a dynamic and powerful contribution...
President-elect Dennett has kept in touch with his alma mater, but even if he were going back to the campus for the first time since graduation he would soon feel at home. The same stately elms still march across the close-clipped green. Some new buildings have been added to the architectural hodgepodge. There are new fraternities; Tyler Dennett's own local AZA has become national Phi Gamma Delta. But he will find many a familiar face in the faculty. Three years ago a census revealed that one-sixth of Williams' professors had taught there more than...
Died. Betty, aged 10 days, fourth orangutan born in the U. S. (TIME, May 14); of starvation when maternal nervousness stopped her mother Nancy's flow of milk; in Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. Fiercely protective like all orangutan mothers, Nancy would not let zoomen touch the baby, tried to keep it alive with mouthfuls of milk from...