Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dream-glimpses of such a republic-familiar, but never unpleasantly so. He crowded his painted world with plump ladies and children, always in the best of spirits and often partly undressed. And over them he sometimes succeeded in weaving a deep sparkle of color which few U.S. contemporaries could touch...
TIME made a similar study of college graduates in 1940 with the research tools then available. It was a good try, but it did little more than touch on some of the basic socio-economic characteristics of college graduates. This time we are trying to find out their characteristics by the kind of people they are: whether they are liberal or conservative in thought, whether they are participating actively in community leadership or have reneged on this aspect of their obligation to society...
Grinned the Daily Herald: "The case of the cardboard-soled business executive is very moving. Did he, we wonder, try to touch Miss Young for a taxi fare? . . . If she is aware of the achievements of our nation in industrial output . . . she must surely realize that a tired people . . . could scarcely perform such feats." The Daily Mirror was avuncular: "Miss Young . . . has a kind heart. . . . The contrast between Hollywood opulence and our own modest state may have made the film star ultrasensitive...
Though chapter houses were crowded, many married brothers now lived in Quonsets, trailers and boardinghouses off campus; they had little time for the old casual touch-football games on the lawn, or the beer & bull sessions. Even at Western and Midwestern campuses, where fraternities usually had been taken more seriously than in the East, actives were not as active any more. Were fraternities themselves on the decline? According to a survey of 17 big-time college campuses last week, the answer was decidedly...
...Axelrod, 31, was one of the first New Englanders to have a telephone in his automobile. He needed it. As boss of six textile mills in four cities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, plump, hustling Joe Axelrod made the rounds every day, and he liked to keep in touch. Last week, Joe Axelrod added a fifth city (Providence) to his tour, a seventh plant (the Damar Wool Combing Co.) to his holdings. Even for a young man who likes to keep moving, Axelrod had moved far. In 9½ years he had parlayed $5,500 into an integrated textile empire...