Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Rollins College has been successful would be admitted by anyone who has been in touch with its record. The zeal for mental effort and advancement displayed by the students is well known in educational circles. And it is equally certain that the success is attributable neither to the basis of the system nor to the educational principle, but to the active leadership of the president. This is a fundamental distinction...
...here I rest upon Your desk for a short space; until-the waste basket and the fire. Then once again I'll go-free smoke before free wind-to touch again the hills of Maryland...
...portrait of Mayor Thompson-with every 25 purchase. Those who draw the winning tickets will receive prizes amounting to $1,000,000. Aware that the Post Office Department would consider his scheme illegal, said amazing Mayor Thompson: "I'm going to a medium who's in touch regularly with the spirit of Grover Cleveland. I'll tell the medium to get in touch with Grover Cleveland and I'll tell Cleveland: 'Grover, you were President of the United States during a hard-time period. We're going to have our drawing here in Chicago...
However, those admirers of Copey outside of Harvard's walls, if no more enthusiastic, are at least more numerous; for since 1900 Harvard has graduated its yearly half thousand. In order that these old friends may hear Copey's voice and imagine his personal touch, one is inclined to endorse the Herald's suggestion and to hope that a broadcast may be arranged. The Harvard family to whom Copey each year reads Christmas stories would thus be united. A place in it would not be usurped, for only those who have known him will be listening to the real Copey...
...novel, which in part seems to be based on the author's own experiences, is written with the sure touch of a skillful story-teller who deals with a theme he is fitted to handle with the unmistakable mark of sincerity. Although Mr. Gibbs has been living for some time in America, "Chances" is English to the last idiom of British slang. It belongs in the general category of novels that deal with the reserved, sensitive, pipe-smoking boys who were England's junior officers in France. Those readers who enjoy hearing about the boys "playing cricket" at the front...