Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once, although the Adviser might easily be allowed more than the two free meals which they are at present permitted to take with their charges in the Union, without too heavily straining the University budget. Another reason for complaint is that the Advisers are too often men out of touch with the student's side of the elementary courses, and far too busy to devote the necessary time to him. This difficulty is gradually being obviated by the introduction of men who teach the Freshman courses, and who are younger and more closely in touch with the undergraduate; the slowness...
Composer Robert Schumann's pianist-wife Clara gave to Brahms's life the romantic touch without which biographers never would have been satisfied. Brahms never married but Clara Schumann encouraged him through his failures, inspired him to compose love songs as deeply personal as any that have been written. The D Minor Concerto failed at its first hearing, partly because Brahms played the piano part himself more vigorously than accurately. It took Clara Schumann, who played it the length & breadth of Europe, to make it known for what it was worth. The premiere of the Violin Concerto...
...this way & that. Besides jerking the ship about, it strained the controls. Since the robot first appeared, Sperry engineers and airline operators have been busy improving it. Last week the robot was presented again, this time by United Air Lines. Two years of practice had given it the feather-touch of the expert pilot. Instead of jerking the controls by direct mechanical force, the new robot eases them by hydraulic and pneumatic action. Also it is lighter and more compact than the old robot, since it utilizes the same gyroscopes that actuate the artificial horizon and directional gyros...
...being founded. Other objects, however, are contemplated which it is hoped will prove helpful to both teachers and students in the field of economics. We hope to be able to assist in the work of bringing students in different Universities working on the same or allied subjects into touch with one another; and, last but not least, we intend to publish translations of important articles in foreign languages which are not readily accessible to English-speaking economists. For example, the first number, which it is hoped will appear in October, will probably contain a translation of an article...
...outside Baltimore. She was "aggressively determined not to lose an opportunity to inculcate good old-fashioned morality, embodying principles of decency and respect for individual personality and clean-mindedness." Testified one of her former pupils: "Miss Hannah always told me never to swear or drink or let a boy touch me, and I never...