Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rocky Mountain News's report of Publisher Bonfils' death did not touch on those stories. Instead it paid tribute to his "challenging virility." For fair-minded critics had to acknowledge that his energy outweighed his rascality, his beneficence atoned for his arrogance...
Headmastering a socialite day school is not always an easy job. Trustees, closer in touch than those of boarding schools, may have too many notions about running things. The parents and children may be more concerned with social life than with scholarship. Day schools are never very lavishly endowed, and when hard times come there is not much slack to be taken up. Last week, very much aware of these things, the headmaster of socialite Chicago Latin School for Boys announced "retirement" at the end of the school year...
Muscles involved in sneezing get their nervous orders from the sneezing centre in the medulla oblongata, all important part of the central nervous system between the brain and spine. The sneezing centre in turn is roused by stimuli along the trigeminus nerve which carries sensations of touch, pain and temperature from the skin of the face, the adjoining parts of the scalp, the mucous membrane lining of nose & throat and from the teeth and eyes. A sudden bright light may cause a sneeze, as may a strong odor. Diseased teeth, sinuses, nose or throat may affect the trigeminus, arouse...
...mastering. Spreading paint with the bare hands was an obvious idea but ordinary paints have obvious disadvantages. Fingerpaints, Miss Shaw's own invention, are made with harmless earth, pigments and a cold-creamy substance, all of which washes instantly off. The mixture is sensuously smooth to the touch, comes in six colors, and may be licked or eaten with impunity...
With a cargo of flowers, fruits, films, photos, Pilot "Buddy" Jones whipped a silvery Lockheed of Air Express Corp. off the runway of United Airport, Los Angeles, one afternoon last week to touch wheels at Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. at dawn. Time: 14 hr.-a transcontinental record for commercial planes. Scheduled time...