Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hear much today about cooperation in research, and that is good in working out well defined problems which require great labor and often the collaboration of different specialists. But it is not all. It aids in solving difficult and intricate problems; yet it does not touch the greatest of all contributions to thought, that of discovering a wholly new problem to be solved. This, like a work of art or literature, is essentially the creation of a single brain. To select men capable of this, to set them at work in surroundings most adapted to entice and fructify imagination...
...probably to avoid answering tedious questions both Mr. Collins & Mr. Howard promptly sailed for Bermuda after the announcement, will remain there until after New Year's. Mr. Collins had his private telephone number changed. On the day of his departure not even his new employers could get in touch with...
...circling of running fits), snapping silently at anything in its path. Some mad dogs snap so hard they break their teeth and jaws. The final stage is paralysis, coma, death. The normal course of rabies: one week. Best procedure with a dog suspected early: isolate, feed lightly, do not touch...
...course, the intention of their [the British] note to touch upon any matter affecting the constitutional position of the U. S. Government. Their note, therefore, should be read solely as related to their own position...
...Cinema's ethical code had in this case the effect of prompting the ingenuity of Scenarists Glazer & Garrett. The scene at a Milan hospital in which a priest mumbles a marriage ceremony adds nothing to the story but it is an effective incident in itself. The only stupid touch in the picture comes in the final moment after the tragedy of Catherine's death - when Lieutenant Henry picks up her corpse, looks out of the window at an armistice celebration and loudly remarks: "Peace!" After this comes an unreasonable photograph of flying pigeons...