Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon thereafter cables flashed that, while H.R.H. was getting on very well with the job of bagging beasts, he had caught a touch of malaria...
...remarkable feature of this meteor", continues Professor Luyten, "is that it felt cool, in spite of the tropical sun almost overhead, which made the surrounding limestone unpleasantly hot to touch. It is said that this meteor is not magnetic. The results of the chemical analysis show 17.42 per cent nickel and 81.29 per cent iron. This is an unusually high proportion of nickel. It is not surprising, therefore, that the meteor is extremely hard and especially tough. Investigation with a file led to the estimate that this nickel-iron alloy compares in hardness with the hardest steel used on railroads...
...book of essays, The Painter's Craft, published a month ago by Scribner's, Critic Cortissoz persuasively explains his emphasis on technique. Says he: ". . . who shall say where the 'manual dexterity' leaves off and the mysterious alchemy of that intensely personal thing, 'touch,' begins? . . . The ponderables and imponderables in this matter are inextricably fused. To grasp the former is to lay hold of an infallible key to the latter. In other words, the painter's craft, allied as it is to 'manual dexterity,' is first and last an index...
...order to enable the Harvard Clubs to get in touch with members of the class next year the type of business concern and the business address should be stated as well as the home address...
...ball and spring. Wires run up the fencer's sleeves and out through an opening in the back of his coat, trail out behind him on the mat. When the positive tip of one foil strikes the negatively charged plastron of an adversary, a gong rings, and a touch is marked up on the Stab Register. Stabbing the floor, another foil blade or hilt, does not register. Inventor Massard insisted last week that it is impossible for fencers equipped with "Massard's Stab Register" to short circuit or electrocute themselves...