Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leverett jumped off to a quick start on Tuesday in the Strauss Trophy competition. The Bunnies defeated Dudley in soccer, 2 to 1, and romped over Adams in touch football with a 52-6 victory. Jack Canning, Paul Rosenthal, Nobi Smith, and Bob Storey led the scoring in the second game...
...neither in the Government nor in the nation has automation replaced people. Despite the elaboration of government, business and play in the U.S., the machines still need men and these will probably be marked by two seemingly contrary characteristics, close touch with the people, and uncommon ability to work amid the whirring social machinery of the most complex of nations...
Poor Listener. With the Vizier out of touch, the Sultan gave in. Shortly before dawn next day, light tanks and armored cars converged on the palace. Squads of police materialized on street corners; troops lined the roads to the airport. At 7 a.m. the Sultan, leaning heavily on a gold-headed cane, his eyes veiled behind dark glasses, emerged from his palace for only the third and last time in his unhappy two-year reign (on both previous occasions, someone had tried to assassinate...
...have a goal; it knows what it wants to do. Starting with the single small blob in a fertilized egg cell, it inexorably grows to a special form-frog, pine tree or man. Inert, unorganized matter flows into the growing organism and is at once transformed by the touch of its life. It becomes alive; it creeps or flies or sings or loves. When matter is touched by man's protoplasm, the kind with the highest purpose, it becomes extremely complicated, with thoughts and aspirations that defy scientific pinpointing...
Opposing Streams. Nothing else like this touch of life, says Professor Sinnott, exists in the universe, and science so far has not explained it. "Attention has often been called to the curious contrast between organic evolution and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.* Through evolution has come a succession of living things that shows progressively higher levels of organization. The organic world has constantly moved upward. The Second Law, on the other hand, expresses the undoubted fact that lifeless matter tends to decrease in the degree of its organization, to grow more and more random in character that the universe tends...