Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lowell was personally more involved with the Society of Fellows than with any of his other projects for the College. Not only did he create and endow the Society; he supervised its operation and kept in close touch with its members, even after he had resigned the presidency, until his death in 1943. To him, the Society was the culmination and the end of his campaign to restore intellectual excitement to Harvard...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13--France's failure to share fully in NATO defenses may touch off congressional demands for return of some U.S. troops from abroad, Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) said today...
...Russian economy growing faster than the U.S.'s? Budget Director Maurice Stans last week decried the "cult of growth," which would spur federal spending, unbalance the budget, and touch off another burst of inflation. But International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson Jr. called for new federal taxation, if necessary, to combat Russian expansion (see State of Business...
...hope for a crumb of knowledge; he gives knowledge for hope. There is even a suggestion that they may meet at the dance hall the following Saturday. The novel has its charm-a disconcerting quality in a New Realist book-but the woman's magazine touch at the end does not befit...
...random. But the volume makes up for the grab-bag text by reproducing almost every known work of Expressionist Cubist-Surrealist Duchamp, from his mustachioed Mona Lisa and famed Nude Descending a Staircase to the catalogue cover he decorated with a foam-rubber breast and the caption: "Please touch...