Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labors in behalf of the unemployed. . . . Congress passed the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, the Glass-Steagall Act and created other agencies of temporary resuscitation, with the active, constructive and intellectual assistance of Democrats. But everybody knew as they know now that these measures did not remotely touch the fundamental causes of the disaster and were only designed as governmental pulmotors to keep life in the patient until Nature could take its course or a major operation could be performed...
...Cyclops, as the largest single U. S. naval loss during the World War. Operating in peace time under the Treasury Department, the chief business of the 11,966 officers & men and 350 vessels of the Coast Guard is saving lives & property, not shooting 'leggers. They bring the only touch of civilization to remote corners of Alaska, succor Mississippi River flood victims, rescue bathers on the Great Lakes, conduct the international North Atlantic iceberg patrol which was instituted in 1914 after the Titanic disaster. Last week the Coast Guard got a new commandant...
...brave Yawalapiti would not for a long time touch the "egg" dropped by the sky-thing. When it gave out no sound, no movement, no smell, one brave ventured to poke it with his fishing spear. The sack uttered a tinkle. The Yawalapiti leaped upon it, ripped it with his sharp spear. Out fell knives, fishhooks and other trade goods-which delighted them...
Readers of Author Zweig's novelties will realize, to their horror, that the forsaken female of mid-Victorian romances is alive & kicking yet. The only modern touch about her reappearance is that she is deflowered by a hero who does not bother to ask her name. Famed Novelist R. (for Zweig?) returns to Vienna after his holidays to find among his customary fanmail a fat letter superscribed ''To you, who have never known me." He reads on to learn that the unknown woman's only child has just died, that she is going to pour...
Lever locks are better. They contain two or more thin, spring-action levers. Each lever must be raised to a certain, precise position before they will permit the key to engage the bolt. Ordinarily only keys whose bits are properly notched to touch and raise all the levers simultaneously can move the bolt...