Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outlined by the president of the society the purposes of the club are as follows: to give students an acquaintance with the practical side of mechanical engineering; to furnish them with the principal publications of the society; to keep them in touch with engineering progress...
...published quarterly, is not an entirely new venture in educational journalism for it was formerly issued as a season of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and later as a supplement to it. The chief purpose will be that of keeping the alumni and friends of the school in touch with its ideas and activities, while one issue will be devoted mainly to the annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers Association...
...relief to Drought-stricken farmers and unemployed city dwellers. But the House, to which the measure had been sent, voted his rider out of the Interior Department appropriation 224-to-90. Human Misery thereupon changed from a political football into the central object in a game of parliamentary touch-football...
...touch of irony attaches to the amusing unbelief of our esteemed contemporaries from Missouri and to their strange unwillingness to be alive to the obvious In view of their impressive reasons for skepticism--several conversations with undergraduates--we call to their attention the statement of an eminent philosopher that doubt itself is irrational unless grounded on positive evidence...
Since William Clark (Philadelphia) perfected surgery with the clean-burning electric knife and needle, many surgeons are now using the electric cautery in preference to what Howard Atwood Kelly (Johns Hopkins) in Cancer calls "knife & fork" surgery. The cautery reaches places which the scalpel cannot touch...