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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critic of the President's Commission (see above), Taylor never complains about swollen enrollments. He wants as many students as he can get: "If they want to come, tell them to get in touch with us- telephone, write, or send a telegram." For adult students he can't accommodate, he has set up four "neighborhood colleges" in Louisville public libraries. He has plans for putting college courses on records to be broadcast, has visions of 30,000 students taking a single course all at one time. "Colleges which persist in lecturing to small groups," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Drummer | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...mistress of the New York Herald Tribune. Arnold was representing a group of State Department employees who had been fired-on unspecified charges-in the Government's loyalty investigation. Arnold thought that an important question of civil rights was at stake. Said Mrs. Reid: "Why not get in touch with Bert Andrews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Information, Please | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...daughter, that the moral force of her character never became quite so overwhelming as it should have. Forbes' portrayal of the blustering father was understanding, but at times slightly forced. In smaller character parts Walter Hudd was entertainly fusty as McComas, and William Devlin added a real touch to the last act with his Jovian portrayal of the positive ("You will, you don't think you will, but you will") Mr. Bohun. Scott Douglas played a nice maid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You Never Can Tell | 2/17/1948 | See Source »

...window for subjects, he works mostly from the model, six to eight hours a day, in a big, messy hotel studio just north of Greenwich Village. He paints his models traditionally to start with, in tempera and oil glazes to give them a proper glow. Then, as a finishing touch, he adds hundreds of circling red pinstripes, like scratches, to the flesh tones. For Sloan, the pinstripes "clinch the form"; for almost everyone else, they spoil the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Determined Drifter | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...very clear, and if readers do not puzzle over it they will find Sacheverell Sitwell's essays independently interesting, regardless of the thread by which he links them together. His writing is for a world that is exhausted and convalescent; it has something of the quality of the touch of fingers to the eyelid to soothe a headache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prose for Convalescents | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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