Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each department, men are interested in the temperatures of things they can't touch, Professor Donald H. Menzel wants to explain the temperature of the corona, a collar of thin gas around the sun. Professor Louis C. Graton wants to find the temperature of geyser holes...
...Japanese find U.S. democracy attractive but elusive. It is strange and foreign to the touch. Schoolboys argue whether Minshushugi means Marx, Lincoln or Adam Smith. Harried housewives wonder how long it will be before belief in true democracy can scale down the price of black-market soap. Said a greying Osaka politician: "We can explain the theory of democracy and even make laws about it. But to feel it, that is the big jump. Let's face it-Japan is being baptized at a very...
With the tying and winning runs on base and one out in the last of the ninth, a virtually unknown utility outfielder named Ed Foynes dropped a single into left field, thus adding a Frank Merriwellian touch to Ira Godin's third success of the season...
...stage at Brattle Hall last night, other than Prospero, was obviously having a grand time, and that feeling was what they tried most to transmute to the audience. "We are such staff as dreams are made on" became their thesis, and they proved it. By never once allowing a touch of realism to invade their island, their patch of earth became properly ideal, enchanted...
...maybes and hopeful phrases--"We're lucky to be playing them first. Our chances of winning so early in the season will depend on experience and organization. They've got better personnel than we do." What Art implied was that later in the schedule we probably couldn't touch them; if his team is up for its opener, we might come through...