Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sweet charity's sake, Manhattan business firms have been used to periodic touches by money-raisers of all kinds, from Protestant uplifters to Catholic mendicant sisters. Organized last week was the Greater New York Fund, Inc. which, so far as business is concerned, will represent a community chest for 56 Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and nonsectarian eleemosynary bodies. Supplementing private donations, which will be expected as usual, the business touch will come but once a year, in May. Goal this year...
...contributions are included this time. Curiously enough, the result has not been a decline in substance. But the absence of faculty contributions makes more conspicuous what has been noticeable in past issues: that the Guardian reflects a mood sterner than the youth of its sponsors would suggest. The light touch and playful grace, irony and polemical satire are apparently not permitted to interfere with the Guardian's dedication to scholarly analysis...
...artists began to fully master the use of color blocks. Colors were carefully and skillfully blended as shown by "Picking Chrysanthemums" and a much greater delicacy was carired out to an almost extreme degree by Buncho, who emphasized line particularly and gave his figures a very light romantic touch...
...subscriber to TIME because it presents the news in a very concise and condensed form. It is easy for one who is busy to keep in touch with the events in this fast changing world...
...Kirar, intercollegiate sprint champion. As might have been expected, Michigan won, but only after the score had been tied three times and finally clinched (41-to-34) in the very last event on the program when Michigan's Haynie beat Yale's Captain John Macionis by a touch in the anchor leg of the 400-yd. relay...