Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...equipped with hydraulic thermometer, lead sounding instruments, ascension shells to blast its way to the surface if necessary. Electric gills fed air to its 13 occupants (only one was a woman). A telegraph cable paid out behind from a drum to keep the Dipsey in touch with its Greenland base. By sheer "spellin' book navigation," the Pole was reached and buoyed with a seven-starred flag (by 1947 the U. S. had joined a hegemony of North and Central American nations). Leaving at the Pole the last whale in the world (all others had died by 1935) the Dipsey...
Meanwhile, it became known, the Vatican has not decided to what extent it will use its station. It might employ it for extensive propaganda; it might keep in touch with Papal representatives throughout the world; it might institute a daily service, translated into many languages. And it might broadcast to all creation every Papal encyclical, every official pronouncement. In the face of inquiries last week the Vatican remained discreetly silent...
...University. If this were done, advisers could devote a fair amount of time and trouble to Freshman problems, not only making intelligent suggestions as to curriculum, but also discussing all sorts of outside activity. In this fashion, perhaps by monthly evening gatherings, the adviser would be in close touch with his advisees, helping them, if possible, to avoid scholastic and general difficulties. To accomplish this successfully, since most advisers are men engaged in graduate study, they should receive sufficient compensation for serving one of the greatest needs of first year students...
...final feudal touch marked her passing. Sitting in the locomotive cab, his hand on the throttle, was the Duke of Saragossa, Grandee of Spain, whose hereditary right it is to drive the locomotive of the Queen's train. Earlier in the morning he had rushed to the Madrid North Station, thinking that the Royal train would leave from there and had been roundly hooted by Republican youths. At the Escorial he jangled his bell and opened the throttle in dignified silence...
...Tuesday. Mr. Hersey has always been one of his great admiration. Be it understood that the Vagabond is at heart a romantic. Modern life has always been a little above him with its Brattle Halls, its Packard roadsters, and its humanism. Mr. Hersey can bring to the Vagabond a touch of the world he once knew, a world of court levees, dashing Victorias, and humanities. And for this he follows after him. His old friend tomorrow is to speak on Paris in Emerson F. It is not a lecture on the Paris of today; the Cafe de la Paix, Auteuil...