Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baedeker supplied complete chronicles of dynasties and even a list of the major Egyptian Deities and Sacred Animals, from Amon to Wtō. Baedeker history, usually as dry as the Sahara, sometimes managed to achieve a touch of poetry. Discussing the London Bridge area, Baedeker relates: "In one of the houses dwelt Sir John Hewittf Lord Mayor in the time of Queen Elizabeth, whose daughter, according to the romantic story, fell into the river and was rescued by Edward Osborne, his apprentice. The brave and fortunate youth afterward married the young lady and founded the family of the present Duke...
...touch of ectoplasmic eloquence" removed...
...belongings. Because of bureaucratic technicalities he received none of the allotments for war victims. Le Monde's reporter described Duval's home: "One icy cell, then another. One large iron bed, a blanket thin like blotting paper. No sheets, no table, no chairs . . . The walls -when you touch them, your hands come away...
Where Are They Now? Editor Greenough Smith, rich in journalistic honors, died in 1935. Deprived of his sure touch, the Strand declined rapidly. In World War II, the shortage of good fiction-and paper to print it on-hit the magazine even harder. When the Strand's traditional format and cover were discarded in favor of a pocket-sized, sophisticated approach, the magazine lost the last traits of its old character without developing a new one. Complained new Editor MacDonald Hastings, who took over in 1944: "Where are the Conan Doyles today, and where are the readers who want...
...present, man's basic knowledge about the physical universe is contained in two independent theories: 1) relativity, which deals with the gravitational fields produced by massive bodies; and 2) the quantum theory, which deals with electromagnetic effects. The two theories touch at many points, but there is no overall theory connecting them...