Word: touches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...issue becomes more interesting, however, with H. W. Miller's "Touch and Go." The author again displays his skill in dialogue. He starts out brilliantly, but ends up in a slough of stage directions...
...most uninteresting debate I have ever attended. The gentlemen from New haven received from us a definite question. We at Harvard have understood that the question is, should we have monometallism? The negative has not shown that any other system would work. They have almost failed to even touch the question. If any advantages are to come from what these gentlemen say, it is more money. That might apply to conditions years ago, but not now. Now, credit is the chief instrument of effective exchanges, dependent only upon a definite standard...
...right of veto, which makes him a standing conference committee for all men who wish to pass bills; and in his power of expressing through messages to Congress his views on all matters of legislation. If with these powers he does not succeed, he is out of touch with the people or is unfit for his office. No greater powers are needed...
...antislavery movement and its champion Wendell Phillips. A single public meeting made him an outlaw for life. He felt he should not have been a platform speaker, but a member of the United States Senate. How that was I can not tell, but it always imparted a touch of tenderness to me to feel that he had made a sacrifice for what he loved. In the anti-slavery school there was something that made oratory. Phillips was only one of its eloquent men. He it was who brought completely into fashion the simple, eloquent style of today...
Pennsylvania finally scored a touch-down and goal by the same steady hammering at the centre, pulling the game out just before time...