Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the heated session, one of the longest (five hours) in U.S.L.T.A. history, President Russell B. Kingman tried to restore a touch of dignity to tennis. Choosing his words with due care, Kingman called Shields's outburst "most unseemly...
...much red tape and tie up too many library aides to be workable. However, Lamont could post the more popular exams in the display cases on the first level, where more than one person could look at them at one time, and where the exam thief couldn't touch them. The other exams should be individually mounted on cardboard, so the student who wants one of them doesn't have to hog a bookful. In these ways, Lamont can bring some order out of the chaos without asking the impossible of human nature...
Arthur Smithies, professor of Economics, said last night that the budget entails inflationary dangers, but that "national security warrants the risk." Expanding this idea, Smithies stated that Congress probably would not touch Truman's 51 billion dollar military request, the largest single item in the budget...
...gossip' ... is primarily the edited product of diligent, harassed press-agents who give him first choice on all evil that they see, hear or overhear-and some of the good, if it involves their own clients . . . The dividends are indirect; they collect proportionately from their clients for the touch of immortality that goes with the expression: 'He's close to Winchell.'" And, added the Post, they live in unholy terror that they will lose that touch...
...Wall Streeters could match the Midas touch and power of Williams. An Ohio boy who ran a tricycle factory at 19, he brought his profits to Manhattan, multiplied them in the tire business, then got in on the ground floor of the great electric power boom. By 1924, with a total investment of $2,072,000, he had won 96% control of the great Central States Electric Corp. combine, and with it reared a pyramid of utilities topped by his fabulous North American holding company. The great expansion of the nation and the big bull market boomed his companies. Between...