Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sophomore or Junior who gets in touch with the Employment Office, very often will have an opportunity to work in companies or factories in the summer, which work may aid him in his later decisions. Then in his Senior year when he interviews various employers, he will not only have this past experience as recommendation, but will have made up his mind more definitely as to what sort of employment interests him the most. The man who gives the impression of knowing his own mind is apt to make the best impression on the person who interviews...
...Humorous Touch...
...reason an applicant who wishes a Student Council Scholarships to be applied to his January term bill cannot draw up such a list of expenses and income and have it in the hands of one of the Committee members by Saturday he is asked to get in touch with the Chairman at Kirkland 9763, or at the Council Office in Phillips Brooks House...
...play show's the strange, tragic comradeship of Lennie, a huge, fetish-bound dullard whose innocent pleasure was to pet small, furry things, whose vice was his crazy strength that inevitably killed the things he loved to touch; and George, a wiry, roadwise nomad whose chief job in life was looking after Lennie. The hopeless fairy tale that George (Wallace Ford) tells Lennie (Broderick Crawford) over and over about the little house on the little piece o' land, with an alfalfa patch and rabbits for Lennie to pet, where one day they will live "off the fatta...
...brightness of the Arctic sun, build an igloo settlement complete with electric lights on a 9-foot-thick ice floe. (Four scientists have already spent six months of an anticipated year there.) Camera study: chief conqueror Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt, parka and bosky beard a wreath of icicles. Christmas touch: an antlered reindeer team prancing under the low wing of one of the giant four-motored ANT6 monoplanes...