Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt has pointed out, housing conditions in this country have sunken to such a level that they constitute a national problem, a problem with which the present generation must come to grips. Earvard, by its action, has shown that it is still in close touch with actualities and is as anxious as the Democratic Party to relieve "one-third of the nation...
...these lectures he will discuss the effects of sleep or exercise on study methods of learning words for a language, effects of room ventilation on efficiency, and effects of street noise and music on concentration. He will discuss the relative merits of learning different subjects by sight, sound, or touch. He will tell you what he can about the psychology of learning. Yours truly, F. B. Riggs...
...Jews must be quartered in streets and housing blocks where they will be among themselves and come into touch with Germans as little as possible...
Yesterday was a nice day, but sort of dull. There was nothing cosmic in it; it was really trivial: too warm to ski, too wet to play touch football. So the four roommates were in their rooms, sitting quietly...
...telephone is his indispensable staff of authority. Whether he is nursing his asthma in Arizona or lunching at Stornaway House, a mile and a half away from the Express building, he is in almost continuous touch with his editors-ordering, suggesting, criticizing, cajoling, in his curiously low-pitched, insinuating telephone voice...